Sandman

Where did I go
(I wondered)
was a moment
though lifetimes before -
in some other place
I was waiting
quietly outside your door.
Heard you stirring from slumber
(did I imagine)
you whispered my name.
Tempted by longing
to answer -
for want of a feeling (the same).
I fight with the urge
to awake you -
(could be you weren’t even there).
Would shadows shift
in my bedroom (back home)
and I of you unaware.
Remembered a place
of together –
forever the balm of my sleep.
Conditions of life may assail me -
yet these are the treasures
I keep.
Dare I return to my pillow
and find this all was a dream -
memories cling to the traces of love
and I walk the night
in between.
Morning will come to remind me -
existence I cannot deny.
Yet I wonder
of touch and remember (sometimes)
forgotten this night
of goodbye.