Missing element defies sleep: <br />I wake up calling names, <br />illusion's plaything - <br />only you're never there <br />when eyes finally clear. <br />You're still in that realm from <br />which I was expelled. <br /> <br />& when consciousness <br />returns, reluctant <br />to assert its dominion <br />over dreamtime's mutable realm <br />I take a breath, look around <br />observing only <br />an empty space <br />and I, alone <br />among the scattered covers. <br /> <br />(Copyright 1/16/2006)<br /><br />Hugh Cobb<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/missing-element/
