THERE ARE WOMEN WHO WAKE AND SLEEP

There are women who wake and sleep and wake and sleep,
but you just rise, and then later lay still-
like a treasured artifact from Cleopatra's times,
A look so serene around your closed eyes, so
calm, and in the world's peace that
you find so often in my arms.

You walk not with legs
but with a breeze that

Copyright ©2009 Ashi Shadow --8/3/09
*Jeweled? / beautiful?

Was inspired by the concept of a woman sleeping and waking being "setting and rising" like the sun, but I never incorporated that, not explicitly anyway.

Probably will not finish it.