The Dream's Dream
Garlanded with moonlight
your body dreams
as I, awakened
by the moonlight’s touch
upon my sleeping
skin
gaze with admiration
of this painting
that the moonlight
paints of you.
Behind your eyes
your dreaming
sifts through
thoughts
until it comes
to this
and you dream
the dream
of you
dressed in nothing but
moonlight
and I in love
watching you.
*Dónall Dempsey was Ireland's first Poet in Residence in a Secondary School. Subject of two radio programmes and read on TV with John Cooper Clarke and Paul Durcan.. Performs everywhere and anywhere. Believes poetry to be an oral/aural artform.