I dreamed about you last night
after six years
of leaving all of my thoughts behind
letting them be closed up and padded away
in suede suitcases
dusty boots under that patio
where
you held my hand so
tenderly

tenderly,
I loved you

and quickly you
flew away

and frightened,
I fell.

How hard it is to be in love
and to forget it all
when I still see you in my dreams.