Sleeping together... how tired you were... <br />How warm our room... how the firelight spread <br />On walls and ceiling and great white bed! <br />We spoke in whispers as children do, <br />And now it was I--and then it was you <br />Slept a moment, to wake--"My dear, <br />I'm not at all sleepy," one of us said.... <br /> <br />Was it a thousand years ago? <br />I woke in your arms--you were sound asleep-- <br />And heard the pattering sound of sheep. <br />Softly I slipped to the floor and crept <br />To the curtained window, then, while you slept, <br />I watched the sheep pass by in the snow. <br /> <br />O flock of thoughts with their shepherd Fear <br />Shivering, desolate, out in the cold, <br />That entered into my heart to fold! <br /> <br />A thousand years... was it yesterday <br />When we two children of far away, <br />Clinging close in the darkness, lay <br />Sleeping together?... How tired you were....<br /><br />Katherine Mansfield<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sleeping-together/
