Melting

You were in my dreams again,

like the sun, you brought me life.

You held me close, until

You let me fall, awake again.

Left to melt.

Do I exist between your slow blinks?

as your mind wanders, seeking answers?

Is it me you pull from the back of the drawer,

when lights have gone?

How I ache to give you a moment,

a passing taste of the way you make me feel -

a penny of this fortune you’ve given,

to box it up, leave at your door.

I’d walk miles just to cross your mind.

I break my back bending low, to wrap my ears

around the words you say,

pretending they’re for me,

and holding them dear.

Can’t you wait one more second,

before you disappear?

Let me count the glints in your eyes, up to one thousand.

Do you know how they dictate days of my life?

Each interaction, picked at for months,

each small chance, each common thread, or shared smile

I cling to, desperately.

Babe, do you hold any space at all

for these thoughts I bare?

The ones I hold dearly,

all framed and hung,

or do you simply let them go?

Like I wished I would

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