With Only Our Kisses To Protect Us Poem by Dónall Dempsey

I watch you
sleep

as if
you float

in a seaming sea

far away from me

unmoored from
reality.

Where are you
I wonder

drifting...drifting

into the here
of there.

And now
I watch your dreams
hide behind your eyelids

adrift now
upon the vast sea
unconsciousness

my words
mere birds

high overhead

I watch you
until I too

sucumb to that great
unknown

later I will enquire
of what

you dream
of...

& you tell of
a boat

lost upon
a sea

that dwarfs it
in its immensity

how you longed
for even a single

kiss
to protect
you.

You smile
as if your dream
had been seen
by me.

Later still
I take you

in my arms

& we both
embark

on that long
journey together

with only our kisses
to protect us.