By standswithasmile
Date: 28 October 2000

Sleeper

Sleeper

In tones of starlight and silver

of shadow violet and midnight grey

My lover sleeps

all unknowing beneath an adoring moon.

With silent sighs and trembling hands

I trace her silvered subtle lines

our love strewn sheets are hiding.

To violate the sacred cadence of her breath

with any sound or movement

would be to break the self made spell..

And I cannot.  My god, I cannot.

And so i sit enshrouded

in the deep and worshiping darkness

surveying the perfect landscape of her

rising breasts, her perfect form

her innocent dreams...

While she unknowing

passes peacefully through fields

of wonder woven round her

I , mute and filled with soundless joy

Pass the star painted hours

wrapped and rapt and humbled

at the perfect beauty

of her sleeping face.
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