"Our Sleeping Gryphon"

© Susan Blandford 2001

Our Sleeping Gryphon
Tail winding into dream submission
While you slept
We kept our end of the bargain
Dining by the early moon
As flowers close dozing faces
We crept about in softened voices
Indecision, without your office
Searching futures that hide elusive
You kept to the night, like possums up trees
Like cats killing under starlight collusion
Toiling the grind, we plan out our living
Drifting the long day without sway
Unaccompanied, hung like a loner bat
You slept by the sun, while we fear
What will be our becoming
Our next rung to slay
Wings feather eagle-like, under cover
Your paws furl and uncurl
Traversing the inner world
Unseen by day keepers
We ponder at your whereabouts
Why nocturnal blossoms
Murmur through your fur-length hair
Pensively sleeping on, you slept on.
Still.It crept on by
Lionhood cradling into slumber
You hum with breathing cadences
That sift through walls and into thoughts
Resonating in wait
Your words unheard, stifled by quilt and pillow
Locked within your room, in your head, that rests
Interminably
We glimpse your bed-warmed form
See your wide-eyes, colour-deep
In the Twilight of wake and sleep
As we slip into our night's repose
Uncertainly.

4 August 2003