I feel you next to me, softly,

you are probing me, exploring me, touching me,
in places tender and secret,
in places I like to feel you,
in places that have not been touched for a long time

I sleep...

I feel you inside me, strongly,

There is an insistence, a question, a curiosity,
to the things you want right now
to know what it feels like to feel you
to feel you reaching out for yourself with my hands

I sleep...

and hold you close, tonight.

6/26/00