Is it a Dream?

The more vivid the worlds around us, 

Our love is but a faint whisper on dark waters, 

Somewhere, far away,

We stand together, holding hands.

Following behind trails of time and space,

Searching for every face in every dimension-

Where grief had never touched us,

Where love would never be a fight to be lost. 

There, you would never say goodbye to me,

Stars would be aligned for us in the heavens.

In another life, we never would have come apart,

Love forever tied upon heart. 

We would have laughed till our bellies hurt over the simplest of things, 

Briefly basking in each other's presence.

Our hands would be comforting one another,

Tracing fingers across undefined territories of fear never uttered. 

That would be our sanctuary; 

Where silence would have been kind.

Lifting all the weight from this world.

Silence would have never frightened us there, 

Instead, it would have embraced us, as something we both believed.

But that's our cruel and temporary world; 

Much like withering leaves of a dying winter, that is our fate.

The aching for what we could never be or ever will be,

In this sea of fractured reality. 

In this realm, we're strangers now,

Your name is a ghost upon my lips, 

But somehow, somewhere, in the life that slipped away, 

We desperately hold each other.