Give me time…
She could walk that road for as long as it lasted
the square inches in front of her kept repeating
before her eyes she could only concentrate on that
not let the surroundings enter her vision until it was too late
the road had ended before she’d decided to turn around
face the world head on eyes strong into the facing
opposition of a life she didn’t understand those people she needed
hidden by people that she didn’t need that she didn’t want
she turned off the constant road just before it turned
she saw something new and wondered what it could bring.
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the gentle dawn lights hit the room stirring one of the occupants just enough so that she could turn over, shifting her weight to her hip and gaze over the person lying fast asleep beside her. Each morning there was something new to gaze upon, in that half lighted daze of her first attempt at the day. She could always find a way of getting back to sleep, but she relished the few minutes of watching her bedfellow sleep, they seemed to be somewhere peaceful and happy, unknowingly looking more and more beautiful, each time their eyes fluttered, each time a little breath escaped their mouth. And with that she curled her arm around her partner and nestled her head into the small space that she had occupied when they drifted to sleep the night before.
