How can I?

How can I sleep when you are this close?

If I stretch out my fingers I can nearly touch you

If you reached out yours.

But you are asleep, safe now.

I do not want to wake you

For your beauty would awaken the beast in me

Or at least that is how you always saw it

No, it is enough to lie here

And feel your warmth

The sun coming up over the hills

Spreading light across the valley

In your world without shadows.

How long can I keep this up?

Pretending to be asleep.

What if my hand should inadvertently slip

Or a careless thought, would that be enough to wake you?

To stir the captive in you, the dragon in me

Or at least that is how you always saw it.

No, it is enough to lie here

And wait for the dawn chorous

Knowing I cannot get to sleep

When you are only two years away

From loving me.