Your soft snores echo within the room,
As I lie awake in my unsettling thoughts.

They are an underlying reminder
that you are here beside me.

As I ponder life's choices and next day theories,

Your subtle tossing and turnings that rattle the bed frame comfort me.
For I know that surely I'm finally not alone.

Although alone in this conscious state,

I can only hope and pray that you do not wake.
In light of, I surely wish you the sweetest of dreams.

But at this moment here and now,
I must bid farewell to my waking dream.

For this is so sweet... it must be a dream.

-February 20, 2017