A Sense of You

In dreams you can’t get lost,

Only feel like you’re lost,

Feel so terribly lost,

Then wake up where you are.

Can’t get lost in deep sleep,

Death, or coma, either,

But in those you can’t be

You at all, can’t feel lost.

In dreams you feel strongly,

Too strongly, emotions.

The rest of dreamed senses

Tend implausibly faint

Or distorted, but that

Sense that’s your emotion,

That’s even called feeling,

Which no culture locates

Twice the same—in your heart

Or liver, head or spine—

That intensest, core sense

Of feeling, of being

Lost stays home in your dreams.