afterglow

i walk softly through the empty house, not wanting to break the spell i'm under. how wonderful my time with you, how lovely the merging of a man and a woman. your touch lingers on my skin, your sweetness still wet on my lips. i don't start my music, don't turn the television on but savor the silence and hold the time we shared. i want only to taste the room that just held you, breathe the fragrance you left behind. i don't feel your departure, can't tell you have gone...i only feel how you held me and recall how i took you in. i don't bathe or get dressed but move from room to room with my body wrapped in a crisp cotton sheet. my windows seem sunnier, my life brighter. your touch confirmed, your adorations ring in my ears and i feel pretty. i feel sexy. i feel wanted.

i long to tell you how this feels yet i am helpless, so completely at a loss for words. i feel soft like a woman but happy like a girl. i am warm and fluttery and open and pure. it feels funny to say but i feel whole and complete and pure. i feel alive and stretched and open, open to everything in the world and it all seems good.

your fingers in my hair, your hands on my skin...how beautiful that it lingers with us long after the parting. how wonderful that i hold you still.

how lovely it is this merging of a man and a woman...

art by permission cindy lee jones