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Watching the Sleeping Lover
Sam Shepard
in Savage Love

I wake up
Only a little ways
Out of sleep
You look like my child
Breathe
Helpless sleeper
Frightened of your dreams
Separation of sleep

I breathe with you
Breathe the same way
See how it is to be you
Sleeping

I feel like a detective
Spying
Your sleeping body

I'm not very far from sleep
Your dream changes
Your lips move

Talking to it
In words I've never heard

Then comes a longing
That I don't understand
Because it feels like it's towards you
But here you are
So I don't understand
What this longing's for

I embrace you in sleep
My arm moves with your breathing
Your breath makes my arm rise and fall

For one moment I think of the killing
Still
Frozen

I'm confused by the yearning
I want to have your dreams inside me
I want to strangle your dreams
Inside me

As the light comes through
And the night is turning into day
I want to know I'll die before you
I want to know I'll die before
We aren't lovers anymore