All of the words repeat themselves
Snatched catches of conversation
Across a room filled with people
We speak with our eyes and our dreams
Caught by a vision beyond our time
A connection that empties rooms
For us, plays out a past that doesn’t exist
The day looms large and makes reality
Of the things that should be
Instead of the dreams, here we are
All that is, it is normality
Talks you out of the dreaming
Makes what we could be into something, then nothing
Lapsed time and lost memory
Of the things that never happened.
We should close our eyes and pass
Ourselves off as lovers or sweethearts
Nothing that we could want
Would catch us out here
A temporal, temperate illusion
Caught between daylight and waking
A place where I feel safe