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This Morning, I Just Watched You Sleep Winner of the Emerald Flake, 9/24/2000 Tony Spivey -- The PoetDude There is a silence at the unfold of day like no other I have known. The breeze is soft, cool and fresh. The land damp with renewal. Creatures of the darkness wane As those of the light awaken. The transition is peaceful, Like the eerie calm after battle. The curtains flutter helplessly In the breath of morning, As do the stray strands of your hair. You lay naked, motionless, Except for the slow rise and fall of your breasts, Curled up as though reaching with your whole body Across the room for me. I endulge myself to savior every inch of you. My eyes making love to you in the silence. The sheets transform from gray to white, As the mirror reveals its first reflection. Me sitting in this chair. In distance there is a fondness That fills me like the light slowly filling this room. It comes from a place so far within myself That I cannot get there alone. It is you that takes me there When you say my name in the quakes of orgasm. When you smile just because I’m here. Painters and poets, musicians and composers Throughout the epic of time Have tried to capture love in an image A sound, a word, a rhyme. Men of prominence and paupers Have tried to convey it In life and to the death. This morning, I just watched you sleep. Tony Spivey Copyright 1999
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