Author's note: Well, here it is: an original poem, about Icheb. :)

I actually did write it with Icheb/Manu in mind, but I've found it works just as well when I put in my current (real-life) love interest's name and give it to them…. * smirk * But don't any of you even THINK about trying that, because this is MY ORIGINAL WORK and THAT WOULD BE PLAGIARISM!!! hey… I'm scary where my art is concerned. :)

Enjoy, I hope, but R&R, whatever you think of it!!! PLEASE!!!!!

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i meet icheb

early one june evening

under a moon the shape of a smile

and a sky the color of soft daydreams

the clouds are soft as narnian wool

one cricket chirps its earthbound song

while above the astral choir assembles

evening becomes night

the stars begin their symphony

the narnian fleece is combed from the sky

icheb is my beloved

and the still moon glows pale,

silently lighting the whispering leaves.

where are you now, cricket?

the night grows older. icheb sleeps. i dream.

slowly, darkness lifts.

new light, pale and water-thin, washes against

old night's edge, a luminous tide.

icheb stirs. i touch his face: it is the same

liquid light color as the dawn.

icheb dreams. i rest my head on his chest; i hear him breathe.

i hear his heart: he loves me.

who can know the thoughts of a man?

he is warm here beside me.

the night dissolves, leaving only the damp chill.

icheb awakens. he smiles.

i know he will stay with me as i sleep:

he will stay, and dream.



Well what do you think?? Reviews are the elixir of life, so please don't deny me!!!! :) Thanks!