Silent watch

I watch you falling asleep.

Always liked doing that. Wonder if you ever realized this. Would you liked it if you knew? Maybe you would. Feeling my gaze. Smiling while trying to drift off into the lands where your imagination takes over. I watch you there too. I open my eyes. I see your other world - colored with thoughts, darkened by tension and fears. Gathering all those shadows into a tight ball. Cannot be thrown away. Will bounce back. Nothing can be taken away from a dream. I reshape it gently, mixing with the pink of the settling clouds, adding a few drops of that gentle radiance of your smile. It dissipates slowly turning into a breeze. Finally, gets carried away by happy memories.

Memories.

That’s why you let me in. Not knowingly, but willingly. That's how I travel here. And that’s where I stay when you are awake. Wonder what you would say if you knew. But you do know. Not realizing it of course. The instant you wake up. That's when you hear my whisper. Wishing you good morning. Before the first waking thought makes you forget.

Until the next morning that is.