Just sleep

Just sleep!
One night to unravel a mind,
a few minor hours apart.
I'm lost again.

You're keeping me awake.
Sitting, spot lit, staring,
wondering, wandering, wanting
you. Just asleep,

just there in that acre of bed.
Untouched, in reach,
your face an unpainted picture,
still, here.

Your weight, light in the darkness
holding my fears for me.
I can then take the rest, but this space,
this lack of your grace

is too loud for me to sleep.
It talks of journeys in foreign hands,
nudges me with another picture.
How can I sleep through this

when there you are,
too close to anything but me?
I pray you fall and rise against a clean sheet.
You're sleeping for two tonight,

I want you, like most do, tonight,
in bed with me. Sleeping with me.
That's all I want for both of us.
Just sleep.