It's Good to Feel You Are Close to Me
It's Good to Feel You Are Close to Me - meaning Summary
Presence Within Nocturnal Absence
The poem explores intimate closeness felt while a loved one sleeps. The speaker watches the beloved's sleeping body and imagines a private, nocturnal bond formed in dream and absence. Worries are untangled and desire is quiet but vivid, like a plant seeding itself in darkness. Dawn will separate them physically, yet a residue from night—both presence and absence—transforms and sustains their shared life and longing.
Read Complete AnalysesIt's good to feel you are close to me in the night, love, invisible in your sleep, intently nocturnal, while I untangle my worries as if they were twisted nets. Withdrawn, your heart sails through dream, but your body, relinquished so, breathes seeking me without seeing me perfecting my dream like a plant that seeds itself in the dark. Rising, you will be that other, alive in the dawn, but from the frontiers lost in the night, from the presence and the absence where we meet ourselves, something remains, drawing us into the light of life as if the sign of the shadows had sealed its secret creatures with flame.
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