I Dream Of You  

I dream of you, my tiger girl, 

The colors of my words come tumbling out, 

Tawny, ebony and moonlit pearl 

Flash past me from love's twisting roundabout. 

I look for traces of you in the grass, 

Around the door and on the sofa pillows; 

The fear inside me cuts like shards of glass 

I go to lie beneath the mourning willows. 

And then I wake, and joy! you are beside me, 

We lie entwined in dappled pools of sun; 

The nightmare chased away back deep inside me, 

Another day beside you safely won. 

I dream of you, my tiger girl 

The colors of my words come tumbling out, 

Tawny, ebony and moonlit pearl 

Flash past me from love's twisting roundabout. 

by Ishfold