Phantom Lover
Why wake a gal like this?
Such surprise
And delight!
Hold me close
Dear husband
All through the night.
You had been gone
Two full years
When on this night
You returned.
Hold me close
Dear husband
All through the night.
Though I yearn
For the real
Flesh and blood
Of your body, my love.
What we shared
That one lonely night
Such a surprise
And delight.
Benita Kape © 8.8.2018
For: https://dversepoets.com/2018/08/07/unseen-things/
Unseen Things. Thanks for the invite Jilly.
benitakape 
Filled with haunting and longing. Don’t wake.
So glad you shared this!
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I did get a good nights sleep. So glad I caught your prompt.
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Benita, my mom longed to dream of my daddy after he died, but she only got one dream like this. She loved to tell of it. Truthfully, it was enough to keep her warm til she joined him last year, 10 years after he left.
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Hi Deb, This was strangely beyond a dream and I shared it with a close dear friend. She said don’t knock it. It has never happened again.
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Sometimes dreams really are worth remembering. Very nicely done.
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Too True Roth
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I’m so glad for you that you had that one night of being together.
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I can imagine seeing him was a surprise and delight.
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😉
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Blessings. So beautiful.
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Thank you Lona
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Somehow….and I can’t explain it….I feel this poem deeply. Perhaps it’s because 5 years ago I came so very close to losing my husband. Perhaps its because of a dream I had that was so REAL a number of years ago….a car drove up to me, driven by my aunt, and inside were my mother and father (all of them have been gone from this earth for quite some time) and there were beckoning me to come into the car. I woke in a cold sweat. I’ve never forgotten it.
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I’m sorry to hear you’ve had these two frightened experiences Lillian. Grateful the poem has touched you.
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