A Dream and No More

What is it you want? What is it you’ll take? I saw you wearing only a ring. Otherwise sky-clad our warm bodies sing. Was it presaging? Is my vision fake? Were it only in dreams I never would wake. But I touched your face and you touched my hair. In those real moments, was something more there? It is a question I just cannot shake. How could I just ask? What if I am wrong? Must I wonder for my heart’s fragile sake? Is it so fragile that it just might break? And must my dreams remain only a song: A wish in the dark to help me along? A song and a dream are not wings to soar, But this could be only a dream and no more. Only a dream, only still so damned strong. But I was awake when you touched my hair. You were drunk, but still, you once grabbed my hand. If dream and no more then I’ll understand But I have to know if something more’s there. Benjamin Cline 7/25/03