[00:10.30]Morning  you lay sleeping
[00:13.41]
[00:16.42]Your small body clinging tightly to mine
[00:18.73]With frightening dependency
[00:20.38]
[00:21.77]Life defining  impossible to betray
[00:25.08]
[00:27.24]And with that
[00:28.65]
[00:29.50]The mattress rose
[00:30.94]
[00:31.77]Set adrift on the burgeoning emotional tide
[00:34.18]
[00:35.62]Colliding with the once stationary objects
[00:37.72]Of an uninhabited life
[00:39.34]
[00:42.26]What had been concealed
[00:43.42]Was exhaled from god knows where
[00:45.73]
[00:47.14]Colour-drained  unsalvageable
[00:49.27]
[00:50.11]Shape shifting
[00:51.17]
[00:52.15]And  with function relinquished
[00:54.97]Resigned from service
[00:56.54]
[01:00.29]Two blue sleeping bags
[01:01.89]Nudged against one another
[01:03.43]
[01:03.98]Bearing the once warm imprint of our bodies
[01:06.30]
[01:10.54]The sun-baked stone garden
[01:12.08]Retracted its promise
[01:13.49]
[01:14.67]It was cold in that place of perpetual summer
[01:17.47]
[01:21.93]If you were afraid you didn't show it
[01:24.10]
[01:24.90]You who were born bearing the face
[01:26.86]Of irrepressible grief
[01:28.55]
[01:32.27]So as not to disappoint you
[01:33.93]I lay motionless
[01:35.02]
[01:36.80]Rapt by the rise and stall of your breathing
[01:39.75]
[01:41.15]Your fingertips and thighs
[01:42.59]
[01:43.10]Quietly affirming my place at your side