Where do you go, girl, <br />when you fall asleep? <br /> <br />for even when we've spent a passion's time, <br />you, all woman and all animal, <br />and then drift gently into sleep <br />and I to watch you drift - <br />you're straight away a girl again. <br /> <br />Do you dream a girlhood's dearest dreams? <br />or roam a woman's world? <br />What girlhood's safe, safe place <br />do you retreat to <br />in your private sleep? <br /> <br />Was it when the only man to love <br />was your beloved father, <br />still recovering from a wartime's hangover <br />with alcohol - and your so fierce, despairing help? <br /> <br />Where do you go in sleep? <br />while I now watch this unknown girl; <br />an upper lip that asks so innocently <br />to be kissed? <br />And lower lip that just so innocently <br />enjoys? <br /> <br />Where do you go, girl, <br />so far, so many years away from me? <br />Where do you go, girl?<br /><br />Michael Shepherd<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/where-do-you-go-girl/
