I Close My Eyes

I close my eyes inside
the warm crook of my arm

and there in my imagination
I hold you forever again

This constant craving to hold you
and be held by you is satisfied

only in that still moment
when we hold eachother

In my imagination
I have caught you out of time

we dance with wild abandon
around the fire of that still moment

a circle of green and light
warming the cool dark

and the deeper night


Copyright 01/20/98 Unpublished Works William M. Shannon