awake, awake my love ...

"lady i swear by all flowers. Don't cry

- the best gesture of my brain is less than
your eyelids' flutter which says

we are for each other; then
laugh, leaning back in my arms
for life's not a paragraph

And death i think is no parenthesis"

e e cummings



he looks at her and wonders why she is asleep
it is the middle of the day and
there is much to be done

later on as the sun is beginning to set
the wind is blowing and he is cold
why won't she awake
perhaps she did not sleep well last night

awake, awake my love
I cannot be alone for one second longer
for sleep is silent but I am not