thinness

dreamt of you again...
you were standing there, at my doorstep...
eyes afire,
blood boiling,
heart racing,
i held you near
and devoured you
kiss by kiss...

i wished of not waking up...
of not letting you escape my grasp...
of avoiding losing you to the morning sun...

tried keeping my eyelids shut...
tried finding you once more under these sheets...

but gone you are...
as gone you were...
as gone you've been...

but just as well...
my dreams of you...
seem here to stay...

night after dreadful night...
dream after painful dream...

as you vanish...

from our intertwined fingers...

into the thinness of air...