To My Fellow Dreamer

image by Totomai Martinez

Who are you, fellow dreamer,

whose windows I watch 

wink on and off each day?

How is life for you, on the sixth floor, 

Apartment 601-A ?

Behind every window lies a story,

yours as wondrous as the next.

I'm watching life pass by below,

gaze across at all the lives I imagine

but can never know.

In one square, I see a young man, 

gaunt and ill,

who seems to be saying goodbye

while living still.

A child's head peers out

at strange hours, in another.

I fret, wondering why
I never see her mother.

I dream romance in a young girl's rooms, 

before the hurting starts.

In another, a mid-life woman

explores the broken edges

of her heart.

Each of us, in our small rooms,

is ever drawn towards the light:

watch morning tiptoe across the sky,

dusk draw back its skirts

at night.

We watch it all, with fascination 

and not a little wonder.

I imagine, behind each golden square,

a rich story to plunder!

Mary's prompt at dVerse is to write to the photos of Totomai Martinez, a wildly talented photographer, presently living in Japan.