I see you in the blue green palette of the dawn,
awash in the pigment of dreams,
beautifully smoothed like fresh paint
upon a canvas of wrinkled sheets and feather pillows-
the sand of sleep dusts your eyes delicately,
like sugar on a rich confection,
and just as sweet-
I see your face, framed in the light of eternity like a
mounted masterpiece,
there to be viewed in my thoughts and memories
every time I pause to close my eyes*