Keepers

Had there been but an hour you were here
I would have felt the tremor in my heart
Alerting me of danger coming near
Until the time came for us two to part.
But you were absent, and I did not feel
That little warning flutter in my chest;
And so the night was somehow made less real,
So much that, really, I forget the rest.
I yearned to feel it, longed to be afraid,
But nothing came and, in a heavy haze,
I wandered lonelily and sadly made
My way back home. And yet I feel ablaze
Because when I unlocked my door, I found
You had snuck in without a single sound.