Lying here, my back pressing On your back while sleeping And breathing. When we sleep We lose control of the rules. The body drives itself: submit, It says. But are you there? Maybe. And where is that exactly? I am no expert on place. Though I know I feel less of me when you are there but Not there. That's okay. Here but not Here, that's where I am, too. More often than you. And more like this, Me waking before you, will come. All that needs to be done is wait. And wait is the only unbreakable promise. To you, I promise to be whole even when I'm living in the interim between here and unhere. Even if I'm a resting carcass penduluming From one end to the other. This is why I go away, you see. I wish the answer was simpler. I want it to be simpler because I can't Lose you again. Nothing compares to the percussive heart assault of descending into your mind. Or falling into you. Your chest Rising then falling, the print of ribs underneath like gift-wrapped cages. That's really what falling is. Together even in the lapse of alive. In this Vulcan moonshade, all I can do is adore you while I wait for sleep to come.