" MEMORIZING YOU "

As you lay sleeping
I follow the supple line
Of your perfect profile
And in the softening shape
Of your dreaming restfulness
I spy the happiness
In the subtle shape of your smile
And I wish to myself
That you'll matriculate
Just, a little while
And, as I drink in the way
Your hair falls
So, perfectly,
So as to outline your most
Angelic, face,
I memorize the magical moment,
My heart calls,
To the quiet movement
In your grace,
The way
I see you in the daylight,
Is fiercely highlighted
By the way,
The bedroom pillows
Comfort you, each night
And, tuck you in
To
My memory,
Where I can vividly
Visit, you,
Anytime,
At all....

Tony Taylor    (Chicago)