• AFTERNOON NAP
    by UC Poika


    lying here watching
    as you sleep upon our bed
    knowing that you dream

    wishing I was dead
    a spirit felt by your soul
    that we might embrace

    I want but to sleep
    and join you in your respite
    sharing dream catchers

    I dive in your mind
    your thoughts are like the ocean
    washing my body

    aloneness is lost
    as together like dolphins
    we surf a ship’s wake

    high flying sea gulls
    laugh at us from the blue sky
    though love’s on our lips

    in each others’ arms
    gradually aware then
    we awake from sleep