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" When I sleepwalk
into your room, and pick you up,
and hold you up in the moonlight, you cling to me
hard,
as if clinging could save us. I think
you think
I will never die, I think I exude
to you the permanence of smoke or stars,
even as
my broken arms heal themselves around you. "

Galway Kinnell


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Galway Kinnell quote : When I sleepwalk<br />into your room, and pick you up,<br />and hold you up in the moonlight, you cling to me<br />hard,<br />as if clinging could save us. I think<br />you think<br />I will never die, I think I exude<br />to you the permanence of smoke or stars,<br />even as<br />my broken arms heal themselves around you.