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Love Tenderly Dreams

each night as the brightest star
descends deep into twilight
losing its luster within the fall of night
and the world around me is quiet

…everyone is silent still
beneath the dreamy spell
of Sandman’s dust

there in that space
my mind becomes anxious
with the truth of my insomnia

and no matter how deep I snuggle
into the soft down of my comforter
nor how tight I close my eyes
trying to force myself into a dream

my desperation won’t write me into
the corner of that heartspun tale
or spin for me that true love fantasy
the one complete with maidens, knights,
valor and honor and all that implies

my mind just won’t take me anywhere
….but here

…where I find myself
counting stars and starring into space
watching the clock tick time away while
trying to calm the restless of my mind
to still the questions that forever echo
to warm the cold that relentlessly creeps in

but no comfort can be found
in a night that won’t ever end

…until it did

when dawn rose bringing with her
an early fall storm
and I found joy in the gentle drops that fell

… there beneath the soft trickle of rain
I happened upon the gentle of his hazel eyes
and a sort of happiness danced across my heart

I found myself feeling more than what
mere strangers should feel
when crossing paths upon a winter's day

my mind searched my soul for reasons
but in the end there was no explanation

….leaving me wet with intrigue and
craving so much more than happenstance

as night slowly painted over day once again
I buried myself deep within my soft haven
and I remembered the tender of his engaging smile

my memory tracing and retracing
the strong contours of his gentle face
that I had etched upon my heart

and I remembered how his aroma tantalized
more than my mind, but the whole of my senses
leaving me feeling so famished and parched

and I imagined the tip of my finger running softly along
the bone of his jaw while losing myself within
the depths of his stormy eyes

and there, for the first time in a long time
I silently and effortlessly drifted off to sleep

©LadyRaine