In Dreams

-------In Dreams-------

I want to feel her like falling in a dream;

a thousand feet

with no end

in the pit of my stomach.

I have stood at the edge before,

but only in dreaming have I taken the step forward,

and felt that likeness to flying 

in every part of me.

She is gone.

But is it any less real 

to feel something so strongly in the absence of its presence

than it is to touch and feel nothing at all?

I've heard the fall never ends in death, so long as the dreamer wakes up.

I hope that someday 

I have the courage to take that step

and hold someone with the honesty of such a feeling.

I know that I can 

because I have felt it before.

I know that I want to 

because I always carry it with me.

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