Good night my love I wish you peaceful sleep And for me too Without having to cry myself to sleep Stunned in the tears Awake in the grief I would like to curl up in a ball Make a soft nest of my own fears To comfort me and soothe me until I could once again be awakened by your kiss Your unabashed love and solidarity And it would feel enough I’m like an adolescent dystopian character Lost at sea without a protagonist It was more than 20 years ago That I believed in you And me in you and you in me – us And look at what we have created Now I am exhausted and I just want to sleep Maybe wake me when you’ve figured it out When you remember me And how enamored you once were With my beauty and my ugly With all of me
