L: This Empty Space She Fills

Can you seek a face in a dream

That you’ve only known in your sleep

But still haunts you like a shadow

Flitting to rooms just beyond your eyes’ reach?

I remember thinking of her in between

Losing moments, sight unseen.

Time well spent, rosey cheeked…

A secret of nothing, my soul to keep.

Harsh words about incubi and succubi

War with the waking comfort I try to hide

And though the question doesn’t feel right

“Sanity?” has visited me, time to time.

Better to refrain. Reframe coexistence

With solitudes and lonelinesses.

And bandy myself to the cold insistence

That a liminal love is just dejavu

Playing with persistence.