[00:10.30]Morning you lay sleeping[00:13.41][00:16.42]Your small body clinging tightly to mine[00:18.73]With frightening dependency[00:20.38][00:21.77]Life defining impossible to betray[00:25.08][00:27.24]And with that[00:28.65][00:29.50]The mattress rose[00:30.94][00:31.77]Set adrift on the burgeoning emotional tide[00:34.18][00:35.62]Colliding with the once stationary objects[00:37.72]Of an uninhabited life[00:39.34][00:42.26]What had been concealed[00:43.42]Was exhaled from god knows where[00:45.73][00:47.14]Colour-drained unsalvageable[00:49.27][00:50.11]Shape shifting[00:51.17][00:52.15]And with function relinquished[00:54.97]Resigned from service[00:56.54][01:00.29]Two blue sleeping bags[01:01.89]Nudged against one another[01:03.43][01:03.98]Bearing the once warm imprint of our bodies[01:06.30][01:10.54]The sun-baked stone garden[01:12.08]Retracted its promise[01:13.49][01:14.67]It was cold in that place of perpetual summer[01:17.47][01:21.93]If you were afraid you didn't show it[01:24.10][01:24.90]You who were born bearing the face[01:26.86]Of irrepressible grief[01:28.55][01:32.27]So as not to disappoint you[01:33.93]I lay motionless[01:35.02][01:36.80]Rapt by the rise and stall of your breathing[01:39.75][01:41.15]Your fingertips and thighs[01:42.59][01:43.10]Quietly affirming my place at your side