sleeping beauty

Let starlight melt over the edge
of your window sill
like a slow river of diamond:
Let moonbeams dance with dust motes
that are your ever-presant company:
Let the shadow of a single rose
fall across your breast:

and
Let the imperceptable rise and fall
of every shallow breath
give way to a small, silky sigh
as you, who lay in shrouds of deepest slumber
rise a bit,
to dream
of sunlit waking days...

In the valley a man watches
as he lays in his bed
he looks out an old, dirty window
up at your castle
enchanted by a spell of moonlight
and dew drops
and a single drop of
crimson.

He wonders at the wall of thorns
that have grown so high
to keep out those who would dare disturb
the silence
of lives put on hold
for the sake of spiteful jealousy...

And as he looks
up at your window,
spellbound,
he wonders if the dreamer
truely wishes to wake.



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"always feels magical"


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