You’re present here beside me
you speak within my dream,
you stir around me in the air
like vapour in the steam
Your voice I’ve known forever
as much as I recall,
and though I do not want you
you stay here after all
You aren’t in the mirror –
you haven’t been for years –
nobody else can see you,
you’re in my hopes and fears
You’re present here beside me –
faint child of memory –
you stir around me in the air
you are – yet aren’t – me