Unknown Love

I sit in your lap, arms about you

Your hand at my waist the other comes across

To my face and guides it to your shoulder

Lingering there

The darkness hangs about us

It loiters in the corners

and draps the windows.

It hesitates at the door unwilling to leave

It shrouds the furniture in black sheets

giving the appearence of disuse

And it covers us in black silk gauze

Suddenly I open my eyes

blinded by the high summer sun

I have fallen frm my hammock

which sways in a gentle breeze

My hand goes to my face

expecting to find yours

Instead only tears

It was only a dream