.

i embrace your body,
warm with sleep
as
the
gray
october light crawls through
the windows
you swim from the bottom of
your heavy black rest
and
you
are
conscious enough to crack a smile.
i drag myself from under the quilts
and greet our tiny home with
a haggard stretch.
the white clouds surface
in our strong coffee
as the smell of my acrylics
waft through the house from
the night before.
i peel an orange for you
as the sound of headlines
fill the room. i turn,
and there you're standing
b e a u t i f u l
with the morning,
and you smile
and we kiss.

my heart was locked,
you had the key.