lay me gently in your hope chest.
take my mind and body, wrap them tight.
fit me in between the forks and spoons.
keep me there for when you have a need.
air me once each year.
stop the rats from nibbling my imagination.
bring me to your life.
to still my ache and make me whole.
the day it does not stop, yet all i think about is you.
my chest is tight with longing, my brain a whirl of thought, my mind it will not settle.
my thoughts move to some task and slip away once more.
you sit there in the hollow in my heart and now all of me falls into you.
each day apart brings us nearer.
each 