Missing element defies sleep:
I wake up calling names,
illusion's plaything -
only you're never there
when eyes finally clear.
You're still in that realm from
which I was expelled.

& when consciousness
returns, reluctant
to assert its dominion
over dreamtime's mutable realm
I take a breath, look around
observing only
an empty space
and I, alone
among the scattered covers.

(Copyright 1/16/2006)

Hugh Cobb

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