{"sf1_id":2096281,"sf2_id":null,"title":"A Fine First Mate (a poem)","author":"Ryuji5","words":107,"posted_at":"2024-01-21T10:38:00.000Z","tags":["Better than dreams","First mate","Love","Poem"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/2096281-a-fine-first-mate-a-poem","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/view/2096281","image_url":"https://www.sofurryfiles.com/std/thumb?page=2096281\u0026ext=.jpg","description":"#5 of Poems\n\nIn my low points, I think of my love. I love them. They love me. They make me happy.","content":"Lying awake seeking sleep and I don't dream of you.  \n  \n  \nI see you in my mind and I taste you on my lips.  \n  \n  \nFor you are real and I'm enamored  \n  \n  \nYou lift my sinking ship as it bobs the sea of dreams  \n  \n  \nFor I don't dream you, you're real  \n  \n  \nPerhaps there is you in all and I just hope for some of me in you  \n  \n  \nLest we spend forever hoping for more than a dream.  \n  \n  \nI don't dream, not of you  \n  \n  \nYou're my reality and I'm yours  \n  \n  \nWe sail together across the sea of dreams to land of real  \n  \n  \nI couldn't ask for a better first mate  \n  \n\n"}