For you, asleep

my teeth
even ache
from holding in
the things I want
to share with you
and i can
imagine it
like this overflow
that's in my soul
breaking free
and leaving
a hollow place
for you

but now
another day's
ended
you sleeping and i
in the bedstand lamplight
listening to you
sleep surrounded by your hair
and the lovely gates
of your eyes all lashed down

i have no more room
to keep this.