To my soulmate

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 bluegreen leaves

with its watery sun & three moons

towards the cave where you must descend

 towards your worst fear

I would like to give you the silver branch

 and the small white flower

the one word that will protect you from the grief at the center of your dream

from the grief at the center

I would like to follow you up the long stairway again

 become the boat that would row you back carefully

 and 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 & that necessary

Margaret Atwood

 .forget about that "unnoticed" part. I want to be noticed by you in every possible way