while you were sleeping

while you were sleeping

i tried to go about my day,

tried to separate myself

from the miraculous 

umbilicus

wound around space

and over time

that connects you

to me.

while you were sleeping

i went to work to earn

my dancing shoe money.

while you were sleeping

i cursed time and space

and hemispheres and gravity

and everything that separates

you

from me.

while you were sleeping

i tried not to think of

happily ever after

and horses in the hamptons

or the adirondacks.

... but really

i want to flawlessly step

into the fairytale,

i dream of a seamless

transition from cinderella's 

stepsister to being the beat

of your prince charming heart.

with a sense that isn't literal

i dream of flying through 

hemispheres and 

surfing mountains,

i want to grab hope

by the gonads,

demand a pay off 

for my endless devotion.

while you were sleeping.