A Dream

The ocean shifts and she moves,
Like the wave she flows she ebbs and flows into my mind.

And like the calm water she cleanses my thoughts of everyday things,
And I cannot forget her.

As I walk I hear the surf shift against the shore and it’s as if she is here.
Her soft words whisper in my mind and I feel her.

I close my eyes and I can see her standing beside me,
With me and yet I know she’s not done.
Not finished with my mind, not done with my soul.

The gull soars above me reaching out to places far away,
And I wish I were him flying soaring searching.
The sound of his cries like the sound of a man weeping for his lost love.

And I know how he feels that spirit reaching out to the place in his mind,
Oh how I wish.

I walk these streets day after day and never noticed,
The brown stain on the pavement,
The smell of the grass freshly mown.

The clouds, how they scud across the sky on a windy day.
I’ve never noticed the way the waves move across the ocean.

The flow of the tides against the wall.
All these thing I have noticed since we met.

I cannot believe these thoughts I have, I feel,
I need them inside of me.

My heart lifts a beat as I hear your voice or see you at my screen
Two people across a continent holding each other and we know how it feels.

Kissing, and we feel the others lips, whispering the words that we both hear.
 I count the moments till we say Hello and I know I want them to fly;

Yet when we talk it seems as if the clock beats against us each moment,
And I hate to say farewell; it’s as if even the seconds conspire to keep us apart.

And once again I’m waiting, waiting for the next brief moment of respite.
I listen to the sounds, the sounds of moments caught in my mind.

And I remember the laugh at a silly joke;
A gasp, A cough, A slip of the tongue,
A moment undone, yet I know,
I know how you feel; how you talk,
How you sleep in a bed reaching out in the night and whispering my name.

How do I know?  Because I too have reached out and called for you.

Written by: Marc