Shared Dreams

I move as you move and we will
move together, joined together
through the night, all night long.

We follow each other across this bed
as in our dreams we walk hand in hand,
across the sand and naked into the sea.

All through the night,
I share your dreams,
you share mine.

One day we will wake from these dreams
and try to remember who we were before,
where I end and you begin again.
We will feel the need for sharper edges,
a need for borders and a need for limits.

Then we will lie apart, on opposite sides
of this suddenly far too big bed.
Turned away from each other's sleeping
through lonely nights, dreaming different dreams.

I will walk lonely beaches
while you stand on cliff tops
searching wide horizons
for the sight of a sail.

And, in the darkness, maybe in the deep heart
of a cold night, we may turn together
and in the tangled hearts of our separate dreams
we will come together again for a while
before turning back to our separate nights.