Reification of You

Written February 2002

I’m afraid to close my eyes
because whenever I do
and sometimes when I don’t
I see you
and I feel the person inside
remembering the way you were

I reify your existence
and in this perfection I have constructed
in our borrowed Eden
the one built piece to piece
by the union of our dreams
I live, I flourish

I’m not afraid of fiction
until it becomes my everything
when I feel myself truly living in
the constraints of my mind
and only breathing with my eyes open
to sustain my body in myth.