Essential

I feel your absence so keenly today

Like half of my heart is missing. 

It could never be safer than it is with you but,

The emptiness aches to my very bones at the moment. 

I long to press my cheek to your chest

And fall into serenity at the sound of your heartbeat beneath my ear.

To feel your breath fill your body

And your exhales brush lightly across my hair.

To wrap my arms around your waist

And feel your strength beneath my fingertips. 

Knowing I will feel the tension ebb from your body

As we are reconnected once again.

If ever asked where I would most love to live...

My reply would always be "in my love's arms"

There is no destination in the universe more essential to me.