She put down her book and
rolled over to his side,
Searching for sincerity
in his dilated eyes.
"Do you believe in dragons?"
A pause. A knowing smile.
"Yes."

You know the way some years
in retrospect can
make you feel like
a ******
watching a scene
too sacred for her eyes?
Like these moments were stolen
from somebody else's time.
She has no right- I have no right,
to look at this girl, and her life.
So different from me,
from mine.