Vignettes

Moments make up my time 

while time passes by, overhead 

slow, 

and slowly I meld 

with the evening sunlight 

passing through your auburn hair. 

How it burns! 

Turns out, I tremble and smile 

whenever you sing off key, 

pretending to know 

when and where you went wrong. 

I don’t need to rectify you. 

I lay, mesmerized. 

I make believe you, 

the way you made me believe 

I might have been in love 

before, how else would I’ve known, 

without you leading me, 

loving me so. 

Somewhere, I recall a memory. 

A quiet passing of a twilight moon  

while I lay underneath,  

staring at the starless skies  

stretched across like a pale canvas;  

I melt inside. 

Don’t bother to wake me up. 

Sweet slumber I surrender. 

Bucolic babe, I dream you away. 

Warm by the fireside, 

I tuck my soul closer inside, 

to dream with you, 

dream my life away.