By kevin urenda
Date: 16 January 2000

this number is still in service

and just what is wrong with 
this heart of mine? 
it beats just as well as any other 
      and loves better than most 
   unless it is beating 
a rhythm   into   my   mind 
like fists beating my imagination to a bloody pulp 
as I lay next to your 
slumbering, so close yet so very far away, 
I have convinced myself that 
your heart is sleeping for a long winter 
of discontent 
because I have forgotten 
how to reach it 
I must have lost the number 
even though I know it has 
not been disconnected 
it is not a dream 
but a night awake again 
because you are 
dreaming without me 

01.15.00