VARIATIONS ON THE WORD SLEEP
I would like to watch you sleeping
I would like to watch you,
sleeping
I would like to sleep with you
to enter your sleep as its smooth, dark wave
slides over my head
and walk with you through that lucent,
wavering forest of blue
green leaves
with its watery sun and three moons
toward the cave where you must descend
toward your worst fear.
I would like to give you the silver branch,
the small white flower, the one
word that will protect you
from the grief at the centre
of your dream, from the grief
at the centre.
I would like to follow
you up the long stairway
again and become
the boat that would row you back
carefully, a flame
in two cupped hands
to where your body lies
beside me, and you enter
it as easily as breathing in
I would like to be the air
that inhabits you for a moment
only I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.
-Margaret Atwood
DID YOU KNOW?
It was this poem (given to Rainer by Trevor) which first sparked their relationship.
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