It's been so long since I have dared to dream,
Many years by now, sleep simply skipped time,
But when we first met, I swam in night's stream,
With joy, awaiting a morning sublime;
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Then that one day, I learned of your other;
The sun and moon became my enemies,
Since by the day you were with another,
And by the night, sleep came with penalties:
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When I nap, I see you in my slumber;
Flowing in my mind's waters, joints soon rust,
I wake from drowning, as if by thunder;
Now in rest, dream's sweet stream dries up to dust:
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The nightmares start not when head hits pillow,
They haunt me when sunlight hits my window.