Sweet Ecstasy

I lay watching you sleep,
jealous of your dreams
because they keep you away from me
Convinced they're filled
with others besides myself,
yet praying that I'm wrong.

The soft bedroom light
holds and touches your face
more softly and gently
than I shall ever be able to do.

Your eyes are closed,
shutting off their warmth and fire
Eyes that tell me
when I've hurt you
with an unintended word
that you misunderstood
That hurt little girl look,
that makes me sorry
I ever learned to speak.

That feminine little nose
that fits your face so perfectly
Your mouth can warm my heart
with an unexpected smile
Rekindle the fires of passion
that burns within me,
with the fire
from a single kiss.

Your hair
in the gentle bedroom light
is as soft as a ray from the sun
Even as it is now,
disheveled,
it still keeps it beauty.

You look so helpless and alone,
lying there,
an arms length away
All I can think of is
that I want to reach out,
take you in my arms
and hold you ever so tight
And keep all the bad away
But with the morning light,
you'll awake,
and be a modern woman
who wants no one to fight her battle,
no one.

You turn in your sleep,
your hand touches me
In your sleepy casualness,
a touch,
a stroke,
makes it all seem worthwhile
The innocent reassurance of it.

You lay quiet and alone,
with that lilttle girl look
You seem so alone,
so helpless,
That I reach out to touch you
But no,
I don't want to disturb you sleep.

Oh, but yes I do.
I want to disturb it so very much
To take you in my arms
and hold you close
And tell you that I'll love you forever,
until I am no more
Perhaps even beyond that,
if God will be so kind
as to grant me
but one wish
It would be,
being able to come home
each night to you
Knowing that you'd be waiting
with open arms and sugar kisses.