While I was away

I spent those three early mornings watching his back rise and fall with each breath. His skin still one of the things I was completely enamored with, so silken and sun kissed. He slept soundly, yet every stir I made his body would find me even if it were just the slightest touch. I paid attention to those details for a curiosity of reasons ..perhaps furthering validations of who he was to me, at this precise season in life. Could the universe be so kind at such a time as this? I won't think of it too much, I live this day and in that, I find an immense peace.

I trace my words down his shoulders as the slightest of morning sun rays begin its trickle on his frame. A smell of my ocean in the air, fresh and cleansing and only the mildest of chill. The surrounding scent of him and his warmth closing around me, sent my senses into a state of euphoria. I close my eyes and take it all in. No more can I stand.. Not being nearer, in those early mornings I slide to him, and taste that skin so soft..my love, selfishly needing this day to start with his body completely lost and tangled in mine. We rise with the mornings sun and awaken our universe to the movements of souls quenching their thirst for home.

a.b.Carleton