SCRIPT:

Start with a visual of loving couples, families, sisters, etc...
Narration: When you love someone, you want to experience everything that they experience together and you feel happy just by watching them. for example, sleeping. Couples, sisters, friends, and families sometimes love watching each others sleep, peacefully and quietly. It gives a silence, peace, a time for people to closely take a look at their loved ones.
Meaning of the Poem: looking at someone sleeping
possibly someone that the author loves
another possible situation: stalker
or someone that CAN NOT stay and look at a love done sleeping since repetition of “I would”
a dream or a wish
Analysis on internal rhymes
Analysis on repetition
“I would”
Analysis on meters/enjambment
helps the flow of the poem
helps us find breath marks, where there’s more emphasis
Author’s history and its relevance to the poem’s meaning
Vividness of the description
Reading the poem
soft piano accompaniment music
video of Rachel sleeping and me caressing her
or a teddy bear maybe
capture of face reading in between and shifting back to the scene

I would like to watch you sleeping,
which may not happen.
I would like to watch you,
sleeping. I would like to sleep
with you, to enter
your sleep as its smooth dark wave
slides over my head

and walk with you through that lucent
wavering forest of bluegreen leaves
with its watery sun & three moons
towards the cave where you must descend,
towards your worst fear
I would like to give you the silver
branch, the small white flower, the one
word that will protect you
from the grief at the center
of your dream, from the grief
at the center. I would like to follow
you up the long stairway
again & become
the boat that would row you back
carefully, a flame
in two cupped hands
to where your body lies
beside me, and you enter
it as easily as breathing in

I would like to be the air
that inhabits you for a moment
only. I would like to be that unnoticed
& that necessary.