Dreams

A tease
A test of reality
A dream they call it

I dream as any other
But my dreams
Are filled with visions of you

Your gentle smile
With your soft lips
Haunt my mind by day

By night I feel you
soft arms firm around me
Your warm body next to mine

I hate to wake when the sun
Shining through my window
Brings my dreaming to an end

I close my eyes
To relive the moment
To feel you

The emptiness of the bed
The chill that pains my heart
Reminds me you aren't really there

I rise and go through the motions
To get me through the day
While you run through my mind

I sit and wonder if my dreams
Maybe could come true and I
Could be with you as I was in them

To feel you next to me
Your breath in my ear
Your fingers entwined with mine

Sitting there together
The warmth filling this old scarred heart
As I lean over to kiss your neck so softly

I look around and realize
You aren't really there and maybe
Maybe all you could ever be is a dream

A sadness fills me
As I contemplate this and know
That it is not what I want

But I realize also that I can't have
What I want most
I can't have you

But to dream
Oh to dream
Of the moment so perfect

When we are together
Heart to heart
Soul to soul

I wonder back home and lay in my bed
I wonder if dreams will come
To complete my heart once again

I lay there and imagine a love
So strong and true
And think of how I feel for you

You who haunt my dreams
Who has gotten to my heart
Without even a chance meeting

I pull the blankets up
Under my chin for warmth
As my heart warms with thoughts of you

A sparkling tear
Born of a love real or imagined
Falls from dark, sad brown eyes

It gets wiped away
As I prepare to sleep and hope
To dream of you

My soul soars at thoughts of you
My heart skips a beat
And my eyes fill with love

Then the sun, breaking my dreams
Comes in only a few hours
Leaving me where I was before

I think to myself..I want you and maybe
I need you..but only because I know
Without a doubt..I love you