a feline promise - or - timezones

sleep beckons with persuasive invite,
its cradling arms devour my sight,
things become veiled, a bleary zone,
sounds merge and become dulcet in tone,
NO.....my mind snaps back this now,
i must conquer this foe, keep my senses somehow,
you live in a place, the place where i sleep,
for the time your awake is a date i must keep,
i am lost in a track of keeping alert,
so focused on you, everything else seems inert,
our time maybe sliced into day and the night,
being awake for you,when your there is my only fight,
one day my love at your side i will be,
then i will rest at your side and slumber peacefully.

c.d.lee