Return to Me

Return to me. Did I dream you once were mine and held me close like we were one? Do you bring sunshine into her life as you once did with me? It's in your eyes. I see it. I know you so well. I hold your heart. Drinking your morning coffee, briefcase in hand. I'll be home late tonight. Your voice betrays you. As you kiss my cheek, your fragrance lingers. I listen to your fading footsteps. Bodies entwined in silken sheets, murmurs of ecstasy, pulses pounding. Sounds of your imagined lovemaking explode in my brain. I stand alone in a desert of deceit. Tears stinging my soul, pain piercing my body like shards of broken glass. As I whisper, my love, return to me. Return to me, to the U-shaped hollow within my heart that echoes with the call of your name. In the still of night, when you slip into my waking dreams, is when I miss you most. I envy her easiness of years, the warm familiarity of your body in the first blush of dawn. Each time you leave, with your caresses etched upon my wanting flesh, my soul cleaves a little more to yours. The more we share, the more I want, until these stolen hours become insufficient to fill the void of your absence. Magical, carefree nights, when only you and I exist in the world, fall away. Then, you walk out of the door, and once again, I am swallowed by the mediocrity of my life. Until you return to me, once more. Translated by Releska