Sometimes

at twilight

I dream of you

And of your effervescent presence

How we once were,

How we are now

Separated by distance, space

And time. Always time.

Life, it seems, takes joy

In playing cruel jokes at us

I loved you when we were together then

But you could hardly conceive the words

You love me in my absence

But I now belong to another

When will the games end?

I often wonder

So that life may spring anew

For both of us

That infinitely, we may both find

Solace in the arms of life

For you are but a dream now,

Lovely to behold, far beyond my grasp

If I try to reach for you,

Your essence dissipates into thin air

And like clockwork,

I awake and it is dawn.