By sarah iristakeroot@juno.com
Date: 18 October 2000
empty
could you hold me tonight
reach out across distance, deny time and space
return your reality that only you desire
just to be with me
could you somehow remember me in those moments
before you eyes shut, and drift off into sleep
with thoughts of me
i thought of you from before, before there was the idea
of a you and an i
before there was the question of if, or when
and now you live your life solitary
with moments of sudden instinct that rule you for only
one night
then your wariness that you let down returns to you
like the blanket you always keep covered in
i wanted to remove that blanket and allow hope to come through
if you would believe that for a moment
your eyes are not false pretenses
and your lips don't lie
and your heart pounds faster when my hands touch you
could you deceive yourself some other time
when i wasn't involved
i wanted you real, i dreamt you alive and vivid
circling me in colors brilliantly realized
now your filtered, filtered of me
with the reasoning that your life doesnt' allow for such
frivolity, that somehow you can live without my touch
but you've dreamt of my touch for how many years
and you came back to that touch if only for a night
denial, is a hard pillow to fall onto every night
beside your empty arms
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