Night Visions

I’ve held you close
In many dreams
Loving you
To the tattoo
Of raindrops
On the windowpanes.

In night visions
We laughed and loved
Curled together
Like snowdrifts
Around greenery
Quiet in winter’s sleep.

We never talk
In these dreams
But, oh, we love
Away the hours
Conversing in sighs
Exhalations of joy.

In the blush of dawn
I rise
My bed half empty
My heart echoing
Long nights past
With faded memory.

The hands on my clock
Will slowly tick
Me back to you
And we will love again
We will join again
In our dream embrace.