"THE DEAM"
by David Solway

"A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her."
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

"Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration."
D.H. Lawrence

I dreamed that you had ceased to love me -- not that you had come from other beds back to mine, or gone from mine to others, just that something in your heart had stopped. I willed myself awake to find you still beside me. It was just a dream. I thought, yet when I turned to kiss you, in your eyes I saw that you had ceased to love me. I willed myself awake a second time to find myself alone, as I have been these many months, but did not know if it was terror or relief I felt, and whether dreams unfold the past or make the future plain. I dreamed that you had ceased to love me, and know when I see nothing in your eyes I can't dream myself awake a third time. David Solway

THE END
"...please make no plans on this particular day in November!"