I open my eyes.

Darkness blankets them, causing me to wonder if my eyelids have deceived me.

My mind drifts away, as my body attempts to repel whatever has latched onto me.

The first place my mind reaches

Is my safe space.

The only place that makes me feel like I am okay.

His eyelids closed, away in a dream.

Peaceful, soft-skin like the touch of a candle.

I can tell his thoughts are starting to ramble.

I want to reach out, I want to be there,

but so many miles are between us.

My mind looks down at him, a light breaks through his chest.

It’s pulsing, quick and in rhythm-

Heartbeats have never been so bright

His heart.

His heart holds me despite the distance.

My thoughts are constantly entranced.

He will never know how much of my love he has stolen,

He will hold it forever, forever, next to his heart.

As I lay here, I forget how to rhyme-

Sleep is suddenly foreign to me-

He is the only one on my mind.

-jls