close your eyes and forget

close your eyes and forget
the clinging pain and disillusion of love
night wishes leave my heart cold
and bitterness invades the shrinking place
where tenderness used to stroll
accompanied by possibility…
what are those dreams except visions
caught decorating my desires
and playing on the inner screen
of my eyelids as I sleep?

close your eyes and forget
that today's song will warm my heart tomorrow
if I remember the distant words while the tune
dauntlessly haunts my ears
I think there were verses of faith
and trust - yes, the words fall cold...

close your eyes and forget
the warmth of two arms, holding no one
for the morning air is cool
and my bedchamber lonely
no, tears will not warm my cheeks
they fall unwillingly now
forgotten like the glow of your eyes
as I waited too long by the hearth
while elsewhere the winter wind
extinguished our night's fire
in a sudden gust of crazy longing


close your eyes and forget
[2007.15.12...a]