Dónall Dempsey - Precious

You’ve fallen
asleep

like a leaf

come to rest
on a window sill

as if your body
were a shell

& your soul
elsewhere.

I sit
quietly by you
silent guardian of your body

until you return

from its dreamings

fold you in my arms

as if I were
a jewel box

that contained you.

“Love...love! ”
you murmur.

“Love...love! ”
I echo.

Holding all
of you again.

Precious.
Precious.

Dónall Dempsey

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