My Rainbow Mirror
For Lei
Yet if one day, years after you were born,
Woken from dreams of waking, I should start
To hear a pawstep's sound, and raise an arm
To hush my pets, yet they should not be seen;
And if I wandered through the house alone
Listening for some lost intruder there,
And found no stranger, but the precious face
Of faded photographs and reminisce,
One moment I would pass in happiness,
Then, memories returning, I would trace
This moment through a hundred nights, each year
That passed since the last day you were my own,
And I would softly say "This is a dream,"
As if those simple words could break the charm,
And holding you, eyes tear-blurred, to my heart,
In broad daylight I would await the dawn.
Rainbow Daydreamer, 2007