You penetrate me, laying yourself bare, filling me, and piercing my heart and soul.

I touch myself. Still warm, wet, and raw from you.

I feel you fall out of me and run down my thigh.

With my head in your neck and your arms around me, time slows. 

Inside the intimacy shared between us, I ask you to say my name.

You whisper the two syllables in my ear, and it sounds like the first time it has ever been said correctly.

You touch my hand as the storm rages inside me.

Quietly, your calm goes through me.

Drawing me near and into the shelter of you, I look into your eyes.

The swirling of blues, greens, and grays resemble the depths of the Lake I love.

Leaning in, I am lost in you.

The storm abates and dies down to a drizzle.

The rain never stops completely, but with you, the waves are gentle and I can see the Sun behind the clouds.

Sometimes, 

as the Rain falls, 

my heart sighs and I think of you.

You are my good, my deep breath, my calm.

I didn’t expect you and was surprised by how easily you moved into my heart.

You spread your Sunshine about all the dark in my world.

You tell me I’m beautiful, and I can see in your eyes you mean it.

I lean into your chest, enveloped by your arms, and listen breathlessly with a Hope I thought I had lost as you tell me you choose me and you are not leaving.

To me, your heart is lovely and precious. I hold it gently and close to my own. When I listen to our beats mix, it begins to sound like birds singing, I am taken out of myself, and the gray fades away.

I am not sure where you came from, and it does not matter. You reopened the Universe within me and reminded me of the beauty of the Stars.

As I lay my head against your chest, my loneliness falls asleep to the rhythm of your beating heart.

Your fingertips lightly stroking my bare back fills me with warmth as I drift.

Safe within your arms, I am tucked in and peaceful.

Sleeping in the Sunshine that is you is full gardens and lounging cats, blue sky, and bare feet in the dirt. 

A place of familiarity and hope. 

Home.

In a hundred lifetimes, I’d choose you over and over.

This time around, I don’t get to keep you.

But love has a way of coming back.

When the dust of this lifetime settles, I will find you in the next.

And in a hundred lifetimes, it will always be you.

I will always choose you.

You walked into my life, opened the windows, and let new wind into my world.

Chasing away the old stale ghosts I shared space with, you dusted off the parts of me that sat on a shelf for too long.

You feel like home.

You are pillows stacked high, all my favorite things, and a safe space to land.

The kindness that is you, fresh and inviting, like the sheets on the bed we roll around in.

Lay my heart next to yours, and I will finally rest.

When it’s just you and me, I allow for the possibilities. 

Often my brain eagerly eats up the good and spits it out as bile.

Telling me I am undeserving.

But the way you look at me, the way you say my name, the way you smile and I swear the Sky will break wide open spilling forth Sunshine out of every crack…

You make the impossible fade.

My heart runs wild.  My soul is calmed.

Laying my head against your chest, I close my eyes, breathe you in, and listen to your heartbeat.

The strong rhythm of you, and your gentle embrace are otherworldly but rooted in strength.

It takes a strong and gentle man to love a woman so wild.

In that space, our souls are laid bare.

You see me,  I see you.

You smile and my heart cracks wide open along with the Sky.

My heart knows you. 

We kiss and it is familiar and heady.

You see the wild in me, the broken, and the light.

To you, I do not need to be tamed or controlled.

To you, I am exactly the way I should be.

You bravely take my hand and pull me near.

You whisper my name and my walls fall.

Time slows, and all I see is you.

Your smile is Sunshine. 

You light up the dark corners of my mind.

You push the Clouds out of my Sky, leaving a windblown freshness in my soul.

Entwine with me and linger in the Light.