Summer-- the one I want

The jagged and anxious sea of spring gave way

to a soft sweetness in the summer

A gentle joy of smiles and touching in the linen sheets - awash in morning sunlight

hands held on the beach

and brushing the hair from your eyes kind of sweetness that stays with you years later

as you look back and think ‘I knew it was you from that moment on’

And in the pitch hot heat of the late summer

That sweetness melted into an intensity of love I was not prepared for

You are the one and all of the many things I thought I needed –

All the people I thought I needed to be

dropped from me like my wet flannel and jeans falling on the tiles of the bathroom floor

as the rain hits the window, steamed from the bath, and you wrap your arms around me

and press your face into the back of my neck and smiling you say

this is the one I want

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#her