{"sf1_id":254294,"sf2_id":"1QQyxOz1","title":"Never Sleep","author":"Lyn_Love","words":111,"posted_at":"2011-05-30T06:30:00.000Z","tags":["Other","Poetry"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/254294-never-sleep","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/1QQyxOz1","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/a7/c8/a7c82bf7-6691-42a3-9b8d-a9c675b1b2ed","description":"","content":"\u0026nbsp;\n\nI lie awake all hours of the night\n\nWatching the contours of your face\n\nLooking for movement, looking for change\n\nStaring at this picture in my hands,\n\nWilling it to move\n\nPleading it to dance before my eyes\n\nThe same way we dance in my dreams.\n\nThough my attempts are futile,\n\nI try every night, relentless.\n\nI grit my teeth, and plead once more,\n\nKnowing it falls upon nothing more than pigment on paper.\n\nHow you have enchanted my heart\n\nSweet love of mine.\n\nI lie awake, and count the hours,\n\nBegging and pleading for signs of life.\n\nThis paper hath enraptured me,\n\nAnd I fear I shall never sleep.\n\n  \n  \n\n"}