Long journey <br /> <br />missed trains <br /> <br />late trains <br /> <br />(lost trains?) <br /> <br />last <br />train <br />at last <br /> <br />brings me to you <br />in the early hours <br /> <br />of the morning <br /> <br />yawning I <br /> <br />enter like a thief <br />in the night <br /> <br />to find you <br />naked <br /> <br />on the ground <br />as if drowned <br /> <br />Shakspeare's Sonnets <br />at the outermost reach <br />of your fingertips <br /> <br />as if you had expired <br />reading it <br /> <br />my shirt clutched <br />in your hand <br /> <br />its cuff <br />stroking your hair <br /> <br />it's collar between your <br />open lips <br /> <br />my kiss <br />startles you awake <br /> <br />still cobwebbed <br />with dreams <br /> <br />you tell <br />of how <br /> <br />you tried <br />to stay up <br />to stay awake <br />to wait up for me <br /> <br />but sleep <br />kidnapped you <br /> <br />& hid you <br />in full view <br /> <br />upon the living room floor <br /> <br />dressed only <br />in a sonnet <br /> <br />with only <br />this shirt <br /> <br />for comfort. <br /> <br />I gather you <br />up <br /> <br />carry you <br />across the threshold <br /> <br />(never so naked a bride) <br /> <br />of our now <br />dawn brightened bedroom <br /> <br />you the most <br />precious <br /> <br />thing on my eart <br /> <br />I lay <br />you in bed <br /> <br />like a seashell <br />I had found <br /> <br />marrying our minds <br /> <br />truly <br /> <br />admitting <br /> <br />no impediments.<br /><br />Dónall Dempsey<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/an-ever-fix-d-mark/
