she lays so softly sleeping now
adrift in a world so far away
I hover over my lover's body
to hold the daylight's darkness at bay

her tender form, her unopened eyes
I dare not touch or disturb her rest
just whisper unheard through the night
my wishes for all the best

to be at once here by her side
just within these lines of verse
naught but fantasy flight in my mind
do I dare hope to drift in hers?