buried half in half I watch the crescent of your face, sunken to the pillow, sleeping miles from our nearing noses. Hopeless 'crost this gap I linger listening to your anxious rustlings, playing back the hour's horrors, staring at your one closed eye. Waiting out the distance mine own mind wanders sinking back to ifs and maybes stewing in the seas of self. If I'd given you the blankets, if I'd stayed to hold my own. If I'd done my part, I could have kept your heart from aching, racing.
just one more take? I think I can get it this time.