Sing Me To Sleep

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I wrote this as a gift for a friend who helped me stumble through some of my more difficult moments, and then never had the guts to tell him it was he who inspired it. Still, it means a lot to me...and maybe someday I'll tell him, if he hasn't figured it out long since. Hey, I like my denial.

Sing me to sleep--
a song with no voice
a rhythm of bewildered, restless heartbeats
of passion, and silence,
a face I envision, behind my eyes,
a hand I can almost touch,
and a melody that bears me far
into the essence of you,
to when and where and how you were
when first it sprung muse-borne from your fingertips.
And I, entranced,
ride the crest of your loneliness,
penetrating my sadness
piercing my grief
shining like stolen moonlight through my cherished sorrow
and numbing the raw, torn edges
of my devastated heart--
til in one dark moment I can touch you,
if only in the secret vault
of my most silent dreams--
for silence has no place here,
the stars twinkle in sacred harmonies
and the wind sighs deeper--darker--
and all I have to dream of now is you
so sing me to sleep.

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