I dreamt that she sat by my head, tenderly ruffling my hair with br her fingers, playing the melody of her touch. I looked at her face br and struggled with my tears, till the agony of unspoken words burst br my sleep like a bubble. br I sat up and saw the glow of the Milky Way above my window, br like a world of silence on fire, and I wondered if at this moment br she had a dream that rhymed with mine.