Wake -

I find myself beside your hospital bed

bright lights reveal your eyes

still closed as they have been before

I smell the scent of jasmine filling the room

your nose might catch its drift

drawing, intoxicating

I try having one-sided dialogs now

your ears should sense my tone

stroking them as it whispers:

open your eyes and say that you hear me!

don’t make me wait anymore.

I call softly for sleeping beauty — arise!

(unwise) I try to improvise: I’m asking louder

open your eyes and say that you hate me!

don’t make me wait anymore.

Waiting for your unplanned

waking while I pretend

taking so long to have you with me is a burden I can stand

I see Frankie between some records I brought

he asked you for a dance

but you declined politely

I rub lightly the tip of your cotton gown

so thin that with no words

my hands could tell your skin to

open your eyes and say that you want me to leave

Waiting for your unplanned

waking while I pretend

taking so long to have you with me is a burden I can stand

we’d go dancing and be just like Fred and Ginger

(I'll even let you lead if you don’t like my moves)

and then I’d give you flowers

the ones you love,

that go with your evening dress we’d hold hands at the movies

and make faces as Tracy and Hepburn kiss

we’d share ice-cream for dinner

and I could tell you all about when I had hopes for me to stop

waiting for your unplanned

waking, while I pretend

taking so long to have you with me is a burden I can stand