I like watching you sleep/
She said, as I jostled and kneed/
My way on the mattress, stopping to think/
If you watch me, when do you actually fall into deep/
Rest yourself, it must be awful to be/
Kept up by my snoring, talking to me/
Not realizing that I've gone off the brink/
Of wakefulness and darkness until I'm startled and swing/
My arms up and cause you to spring/
Onto my chest laughing, harder than we've/
Ever done before, but you settle in and softly you sing/
I don't mind, because I love to listen to your heart as it beats/
The tears begin to pool and I cough and release/
Them in the present, because what once caused me to think/
I'd found Heaven on Earth is now a harsh memory/
But I bear it still, because though it carves and it cleaves/
And I lay there trembling, starting to bleed/
I know then I was alive for that part of the scene/
My recollection is sharp as the green/
Blades of grass in the lawn of our dreams/
In front of the house where we'd decorate the walls with the things/
Denied to us, but just know that I'll always believe/
In the best of us, even from across all the seas/