Be the Air

I went to bed early

Hugged your eyes

Enveloped the air around me

And dreamt you were there

I wrapped the thick blanket

around my back,

laid pillows and sheets and towels and bears

and you are holding me

Sometimes I awake

In the middle of the night

and I cry out because you are gone

I cry out because I forgot you

And sometimes I feel you

reach for me in my dream,

clouded and smokey and

filled with water, you melt into my hands

Oh god, you leaned against me

Against my knee caps,

I sucked the moment into my lungs,

I froze time to feel your warm shoulder on my leg

I want to bed you early

I yearn to hug your eyes

I will envelop the air around me

Be the air around me

Oh please, my dearest,

Become the air around me.