Jasmine so far away

Jasmine, I wake at night to your touch,
But you aren’t there.
I lay in the dark, silently,
seeing you in my minds image.
Going over what I had just dreamed.
Cursing because I woke.

Jasmine so far away.

Why you, Jasmine?
I wonder to myself,
And I await the answer.
It comes in the dark,
Like your touch.
Welcome, wanted, needed.

Jasmine so far away.

You are the part of me
I have been missing.
You make me complete.
You make me feel.
You make me, me.

Jasmine so far away.

looking at you beautiful face sends shivers
from the back of my neck down to my toes.
Your words make me smile,
Widely, and prolonged.
Your love makes me warm.
Secure, safe, and calm.

Jasmine so far away.

I think of you as I lay in the dark, silently.
And I find myself drifting
into slumber once more.
I smell your scent, your hair.
I swim in your eyes.
I swoon at your touch.

Jasmine so far away.

But not when I sleep.
For it is in this timeless
place called dreamland,
Where I find you each night,
And vow to you that soon, we will be together.
We will be one.

Jasmine, You are not so far away.
You are but a dream away,
dream that fills my heart.
And this time,
I don’t awaken at your touch.
And I realize, you are in my heart
my mind, and are linked to my very soul.

With All My Love, Mark
March 5, 2003