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I am Haunted by Dreams

Christopher Hivner

I am haunted
by dreams of the woman
I should have loved.

I am haunted
by the thought
that she is still waiting for me

because I don’t know
who she is
and why we have not met.

The smoke from my fire
tears my eyes
so I can cry

to lament
my wounding
of the woman I should love.

I am haunted
by her sobs of grief
for children she did not have.

I am haunted
by memories
I did not create.

Where has she been
while I was in my field
hidden by the stalks?

Where was I
while she prepared our bed
with new sheets?

I am haunted
by dreams of conversations
with a voice

as textured as woven cloth
and filled with the wonder
of an ordinary day.

I am angry at fate
for keeping us apart,
locking me away out of sight

of her star
as it passed slowly overhead
each lonely night.

I am haunted
by dreams of the woman
I could have loved.

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