giraffe dreams

right on time, although it didn't feel like it at first...
and still it's fits and starts and rolling backward and getting caught in the roots of trees in forests we can't see sky in.
but, yes. i believe right on time,
because already i have learned so much from you.
my own past cauterised by your heat,
your tears washing my heart clean.

i am always half sleeping and half waking
and the sleeping part let you in while the waking part asked you to leave

i have learned something so far in this incarnation...
that is that the sleeping part always wins,
always wins.

you can eat my liver to your heart's content
i know i am helpless these days,

i have no excuses for my messes (and i cannot clean it all up if i had 3 lifetimes)
   
you are tangled in my sheets, the toothpaste tube has exploded all over your clothes, my dog chewed your shoes,
so you might as well stay.

i might as well go back to bed.  we might as well dream another night, worship the sleeping halves.