Dreams of You Loving Me

Another night
I'm dead tired
Yet, I can't sleep
As I lay next to you
While you lay sleeping
Finding myself wide awake
Daring not to touch or disturb
Yet, yearning to touch and caress
And to hold you tenderly and kiss you
In my mind making passionate love to you
Wondering, hoping and praying that someday
You will love me and want me in the same way
That I love and want you and even need you
And so I lay sleeplessly awake
Like I do on most nights
In quiet self-torment
Waiting for sleep
To bring relief
With dreams
Of you loving me . . .