awake_night lycanthrope Her eyes are closed, and i sit beside her How far away is she? There seems to be some firestorm outside. The sky flashes red behind the screens we own. The neighbors have gathered round as if they expect the ancient to occur. For all i know, it could be our house on fire. I want to wake her, and yet i want to stay. How can it be me who wakes her, it would be so assumptious. I don't know that she's dreaming of me. The air gets thick. But there is sweetness in suffocation. As when one says one word over and over and over again. Stay untill its meaning is so concise it strangles the battles of old times, into a single kiss on the forehead. Enough to wake, but too soft to keep her from her dreams. 020502 ... me i lay awake at night, thinking of you. wishing that you could be next to me forever and ever and never leave my side. i lay awake at night afraid to go to sleep for fear that you might not be in my dreams. that i might spend all that time idle without even thinking of you. 021221 what's it to you? who go blather from