Dreams

DREAMS

When I close my eyes to sleep

My soul wanders, your heart it seeks

Day is night and night is day

On and on it goes this way

Will it change, no one can say

As my eyes open for the day

Yours close on another day

Where does your soul go

What does it seek

I may never know

Is that you beside me as I pray

Or is it my daydreams having their way

Is that you I have found in my dream

A kernel of hope did I glean

What I know is this

When we talk I find peace

My troubles and concerns

All but cease

On life I find, a new lease

Is this how it is meant to be

When I find you and you find me

A taste of heaven is what I found

Never before on this sacred ground

I know not what the future brings

For now I find my heart doth sing

So close your eyes and sleep

Day or night my soul will seek

Your soul in that world

without tether

Where unfettered we fly together

-Shiidon, May 2008

This is a poem I wrote some time ago. My cousin asked me if I was able to branch out to other types of poems. I thought for the sake of his question to post this one that I wrote over a year ago. It was inspired by several sources. I remember my colleague Amanda living in China and teaching English and being separated form her boyfriend for over a year. Or the fact that I was away from my kids. I remember Shahdi trying to convince me it was night time in the US when it was really daylight and night for me. It is about absence and reunion in a different plain of existence. I hope you enjoyed it. It is in someways different than what I normally write.