While You Were Sleeping (Acappella)

While you were sleeping, love came and went

Dancing through rooms swirled with snow

While you lay dreaming the dreams poets forget

Drunk on forget, sick on ginger ale backs

While you were sleeping, I came and went

Dressed in love's trappings: cantaloupe moon drawers

Raindrop garters, and a shift I built

On the backward migrations of monarch wings

While you were sleeping, I wept

While you were sleeping, I dreamt you into being

While you were sleeping, I sang a forest alive

To shelter you from the sun's rays and the moon's philandering

While you were sleeping, the women came and went

Speaking not of Michelangelo, but the hairs of strawberries

Bent back beneath the dewy breath of my desire

While you were sleeping, I scrolled my fingers

Along the nape of your neck to collect the very essence of you

A fragrant fragment of you that I would later intoxicate myself with

When I walked this world without you