I Dreamt One Night

Inspiration from David Mallouf (1962) 

I Dreamt One Night 

How can I say this to you in written words, 

My neither friend or enemy. 

Who to me were once so near to where I breathe 

And I to you so close within your exciting touch. 

Once between our lips, 

You wrote a message using the ocean of your blood. 

Biting down and stimulating my taste buds using you 

I said to myself "hmm I wonder what's on your mind?" 

As my master finger slowly took a stroll down your chest 

Feeling roughly the salt-turned waters 

That came from your deep pores. 

Immortality covered our empty, dull bed. 

I could never read those scribbles that marked your face 

I thought to myself... 

Should I bridge the silent gap with one-night cold casual phrases...? 

Or let you use the master brush on us (me) once again 

To stroke us (me) unstoppable another painting 

Of the pale red sea-men. 

One sea-man plashed restless in that corner, 

One in that forsaken space invisible to the eye 

And the rest drowned in an endless dark vortex. 

That through time shall echo forever in your life. 

While they'd scream at you (us) with disdain 

Shout at you (us) as if plagued with the sickness 

Might even spear us (you and me) in our sleep 

For being brave and true and just for God's judgement. 

Instead of bullets in our head, quick and unmemorable. 

But yet you pledge to me your "love"... 

That in the middle of it all; you'd never leave 

My hands clamped headstrong in your hands 

Still so close to your warm, spent tenders 

And your kisses all over my hair. 

I'd have believed all these declaration of devotion 

If only this one night was not I dreamed...