In That Somewhere - a poem

 In That Somewhere 

 

Lying back against the grain 

I noticed something aching 

My heart, my soul, my mind in fact 

I feel my eyelids shaking 

 

I’d not be too far off to say 

I know there’s something happening 

It seems that just beyond my dream 

Someone out there is waiting 

 

Waiting just for me to say 

I know who you are and love you 

I know that someone out that way 

Is wanting to be found too 

 
In that somewhere 

In that space 

Somewhere past my dreaming 

Someone waits to say ‘It’s me’ 

Another tear—I’m trying 

 

I’m trying hard to wake and find 

The love my heart desires 

But when I wake he is not there 

My mind’s voice—a liar 

 
Somewhere in that somewhere 

Deeper thoughts unfold 

I fantasize—you’re smiling 

But soon wake to be told 

 

That all I think is only thought 

And all my wishes wishing 

I just think someone has to be 

Out there somehow—somewhere 

 

Jude Stringfellow 

1982