By common raven (corvus_corvax@hotmail.com)
Date: 2 April 1999

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Heartbeat and breath
Your golden hair in careless strands 
Across your face

Asleep, and dreaming
(I know because i can see your eyes
back and forth beneath the closed lids)
Tangled in the sheets,
The blanket clutched tight to shut out the cold.

Sitting here in this chair
Watching you sleep
--Thinking for a moment that i am in the presence of an angel.

Replaying in my head the way we laughed 
Before sleep, like a heavy curtain, fell on us.

a smile...

Wanting to touch you, but afraid to lose this moment.