I have shared my dreams <br /> written on paper such as this <br /> paper which will be dust <br /> just as I shall also be. <br />I have purchased for those dreams <br /> a coffin, locked and initialed <br /> with my own name <br /> I claim my death <br /> in this friendship <br />I have sent the flowers of dreams <br /> they also will wither <br /> despite the water and champagne <br /> Will you forgive me? <br />And forget? <br /> <br />(16 October 1990)<br /><br />Jeff Hobbs<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/silent-reading/
