Linger
for a moment.
Taste
my breath
upon your cheek.
Hear
the wistful
in my sigh.
Look at tomorrow
at its potential,
but I am lost
amongst the branchless trees
waiting for the world
to begin again.
The daze of now,
the daze of yesterday
everyday a daze
and, then, as ever
I am simply nothing more
than what you dreamt me to be,
shining in your heart like tears against leather;
a child of fascination,
borne of the ingenuity
of youth
and now locked away
to be let out on occasion,
on that special crinkly morning,
so you can put your heart at ease
and pretend that today is exactly
what you need it to be.