silhouettes
originally written 08.07.02

asleep next to my lover...dreaming a dream, where i've woken up alone, next to a burning candle...somehow, i'm mystically drawn to the door...only to open it and see a silhouette of a stranger...i'm drawn to this stranger, as if we were two magnets physically trying to connect...running through the moonlit forest...this dark silhouette jumps into my arms...planting the sweetest kisses i've never felt...the silhouette becomes two, then three, then four...until i'm surrounded by only shadows...no sight of the forest around me...onlt these shadows of unfamiliar people...but also, some shadows do present a familiar presence...scared, i try running away...but there i still a multitude of darkness presented by this army of silhouettes...running, but with no escape...but to wake, scared, next to the one i love...next to a figure i can find comfort in...someone who is no longer just a shadowed silhouette...but all the light in the world.