Shadow Figure
In my dream
you wake me
with your hand on my hip and
“Good morning beautiful”
whispered in my ear
but reality
is the bed cold beside me
and you far away
in a place where I exist
only in your shadows
And as much as you wish it didn’t
your heart still belongs to another
and I have learned
after many painful lessons
not to fall in love with a man
who loves someone else
no matter how easy it would be to do so