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Smiling in My Sleep

Burning up the Sheets

By K.B. Silver Published 6 months ago 1 min read
Smiling in My Sleep
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I fall asleep

mouthing your name

like the words

to a prayer for good dreams

‧₊˚ ☁️⋅♡𓂃💤 ࣪ ִֶָ☾.

I drift off, hoping

they rise and float

over the ocean to your ears

‧₊˚ ☁️⋅♡𓂃💤 ࣪ ִֶָ☾.

Have they been reaching you?

Have you been singing mine back too?

‧₊˚ ☁️⋅♡𓂃💤 ࣪ ִֶָ☾.

That must be why

I have, for the first time

had the most beautiful

sleep trancings

visions of a life unsurpassed

‧₊˚ ☁️⋅♡𓂃💤 ࣪ ִֶָ☾.

The strands of your burnished hair

scorching my lips

as we blaze fearlessly

through the mist

dancing across my

boundless dreamscape

‧₊˚ ☁️⋅♡𓂃💤 ࣪ ִֶָ☾.

Your happiness smile

the truest drug

I could ever possibly ingest

leaving me in bubbly bliss

every time I awake

to the feeling of your

fingers departing

gently gracing the tips of

my closely shorn hair

K.B. Silver

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About the Creator

K.B. Silver

K.B. Silver has poems published in magazine Wishbone Words, and lit journals: Sheepshead Review, New Note Poetry, Twisted Vine, Avant Appa[achia, Plants and Poetry, recordings in Stanza Cannon, and pieces in Wingless Dreamer anthologies.

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  • Sandy Gillman6 months ago

    This is beautiful 😍 I'm actually reading this in bed just about to go to sleep, so very fitting.

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