as you slept

i

peaked

last night

as

you

slept in arms grown numb but

warm;

i peaked at

your lips,

pucker’d in thought and lost in air;

i peaked

as

your lungs

rose breasts,

drew back,

rose again;

i

peeked

at your darkened thoughts

as lids played host

to

eyes

gone rambling;

i

peeked

in to see

heaven

adorned with shadowed-sheets whispering

‘do not leave us

once sun returns;

do not cast us from

your hips

a mountain of us made’