Side by Side
Lying side by side
face to face
you asleep
and I awake,
Our soft breaths
warm the air.
What you breathe out
I breathe in
into my soul
and back again
and with my breath
you do the same
and so
I know
we two
are one
not twain.
Image: A copy of a Roman face from Sicily (potter unknown).
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