a. TENDER < GOODBYE

| wake up in with you in my arms and can’t help but smile.

You are still asleep and you murmur softly in your dreams.

| reach up and run my fingers down your cheek, enchanted by your beauty. You softly stir and then without opening your eyes, smile and kiss me on the chest.

This morning comes as a mixture of emotions, my bliss at your presence and my sadness at your having to leave.

| wish we could stay like this all day. | already miss you and you haven't even left. | look at you and try to drink you in.

| remember wanting this.