Pages Tuesday, 18 September 2012 I Lie With You Until You Are Asleep: A Sonnet I lie with you until you are asleep, Ten minutes, twenty, thirty, often more, Clocks tick, frustration builds, yet still I keep, And stay with you on your side of the door. Out there, my old life tempts, a voice cries, "Fail!", And tells me there are better things to do, Release: the world shrinks down, we both exhale, And drift together, touching souls, we two. In age, perhaps, you'll do the same for me, And hold my papery hand, and stroke my hair, You'll know the worth of love's proximity, The gift we give by simply being there. A final kiss, a sigh, a comfort deep: I lie with you until you are asleep. 30 comments: Aww that's so beautiful. It brought tears to my eyes. You really have such a gift to word things in such a heartfelt way. And you always seem to express exactly the way I feel... The old life calling, but staying because you can't bear not to. It's perfect. Argh. Ok. I did this. I honestly did this. My non-feral, breastfed-until-self-weaned-at-three-and\\... slung, co-sleeping, co-operative child, has turned into an utter shit at night (and I don't say that lightly, but I'm stressed to high-heaven). She talks, she won't stop, she messes around, she keeps her eyes open. She's knackered, she could fall asleep within 10 minutes if she chose to. She's literally just pissing around. I get it's