and when i see,

breathe her, her softness a whisper away,
she knows the ache, i fear,

of wanting,

needing perhaps,

the feeling of feeling dear,
not much, 

soothing warmth,

enveloped,
our warmth, a light autumn shawl,
her fingers, mine,

tracing sketches, scribbles,

our waltzing fingers entwined,
shedding this year that wasn’t, or hardly was at all,
like so, so many yesteryears,
now long passed,
quietly, threading catacombs crumbling into dust,
gently, reverently, 

laying it down, leaving it all far, far behind,
a few shared moments,

of gentleness, warmth, solace,
of pure, innocent, delicious, alluring promise of bliss,
so rare, 

            priceless, almost,

            

            almost,

            too rare to find