WATCHING YOU

by: ..Hope

The night is dark. I open my eyes to the darkness and wait for my eyes to see. The shadows emerge, familliar and yet strange, here in the blackness of night.

I hear your steady breathing and sigh, for you are still with me. Your form changes,from black, to gray and I watch you sleeping in the bed across the room.
I long to go to you, touch your beloved face, but the creaking of my tired bones would surely waken your slumber.

A young girl lives inside my heart, the girl who fell in love with you, those many years ago. Are your failing eyes able to bring her into focus? She was pretty once, unlike the crone I have become.

Watching you, I fear that I will awaken one sunny morn, to find that you have left me, that you have died and gone away. We have been as one for so long a time. To lose you, would be to lose part of myself.
What would become of you, should perchance I die away this night?
Who would care for you, if I was not here?

If we could be as Romeo and Juliette, to die together, as we have lived, then I would be content.
I look upon your dearest face, through a veil of tears. This night is long, sleep will not come. I lay in the darkness,watching you...

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