~ Window ~

In a lovely embrace
Sleep holds me close
The one lover
Without a changing heart

Silence echoes dully as I lay on cool sheets
Beyond my window
Another world lies
A world that shatters my dreams before they are born

A slam and the lights go out
I cringe in fear
My heart need not me found tonight
A sigh, the noise passes and I'm alone again.

I turn to my sweet lover
Innocent and pure
I sigh sadly
How I wish it were another.

But my lover sighs
Shaking sad eyes at me, its heart hurting for me.
I smile warily
And hung my itooshi closer, whispering sweet endearments that echo my feelings.

Foolish me
To think that in the window outside
My heart can be fulfilled
That my love will be returned, when the one beside me hungers for it.

I feel my chest tighten in that sweet pain
I suffer in silence
My heart's affection and love
Have confined me in a lead cage.

I am fragile
I willing admit to it
But not in mind and body
But in heart, my spirit and soul tugging away.

I shut my thoughts up
They have no place beside my gentle lover
The one who silences my yearnings,
Whom fulfills my dreams with a snug embrace.

Warm arms embrace
Wiping away my tears
It hears my heart weeping
And it smiles gently upon me.

Pulling tighter against that warm embrace
Thoughts and feelings slowing down and eyes shut.
This is the power of my sweet lover,
The one I call Sleep.

OWARI