Dream

 

                             This night

 

          your love shines through the window

 

                   billowing in

 

the soft white curtains

 

          of my sleep

 

 

and I stretch out

 

                   my empty arms

 

                             to hold a dream

 

          I dare not keep

 

only to lose you again

 

                   in dark and silent

 

           yearning deep.

 

                                                                a.o.howell