Bedtime Story

Our tale

For tonight

Is
Submitted for your approval

And
Brought to you
By the overtired
Spaces in my brain
Embellished
By imagination’s
Wishful thinking
It’s beginning simple
Two people
In a room
One reading
The other playing some
Sort of music
That fits the scene

Or not.

Eventually the music stops
The book is closed
There might be an embrace
Or, maybe more
Before it fades to black.

Interlude

Tonight’s pipe dream
Is littered
With tiny notes
Written in my second language
Hidden
In different rooms
When found and read aloud
You laugh at my accent
Soon silenced by a glare
You draw close
Removing them from my hands
To kiss my fingers
All is forgiven

And Again..

Tonight’s pipe dream
Is sponsored by
All the lovely pillow talk
We haven’t had
Those idle

Conversations
Delivered softly
Your voice a rumbling purr in my ear,
Sleep is overrated.