Sleep

The sun has not yet risen when I kiss your heart goodbye
my eyes flutter shut and sleep takes me

When I wake up, the side of your bed has turned cold
much like my fingers that yearn for your touch

My tears are warm on my cheeks, as I usher our children out the door
and just like you, I kiss them goodbye

The drive to work is so lonely without your voice,
without your hand holding mine... Your laugh, your smile.

I daydream, of the moments we hold so close
of the secrets only you keep, and the ones you have confided only to me

The saddest of smiles touches my lips and I am kept here, awake, yet not...
For my heart is still sleeping; waiting for you.

There is no greater time then this moment, where your arms are firmly wrapped around me
Even as I sleep I breathe you in... I breathe the day out.

If only there were more hours in a day and more days in a year
To be with you just a little while longer.

Every night I feel your touch; it lulls me so softly to sleep.
What a beautiful disaster, for when I wake you are gone.

My worst enemy and yet, the deliverer of my greatest solace.