"long day, long week and want to be in your arms forgetting all about it"

Is this love?
Someone safe, trusted to hold on as you let go?
So comforting they make
all your day's, week's, work's worry forgettable?
And you, like a beaded necklace,
suddenly come unstrung?
Oblivious,
as your beads
bounce and roll
wherever
they
will.

In one hour, six minutes of real time
this weekend will end.
These minutes,
already moving into memory,
will exist outside of time.

I will keep these
past tomorrow,
        past later,        
past when I am old.

I will remember smiling;
to think about you,
about me,
about when...I loved you well.

Plate - Fork - Spoon - Knife
I used to be somebody's wife.

Smile - Laugh - Frown - Cry
Twenty years went awry.

Generous - Frugal - Cheap - Miser
Old friends said I'd end up wiser.

Red - Green - Purple - Blue
Now I'm sure this much is true.

Wind - Snow - Rain - Sun
I'll never keep a loaded gun.

balanced
broad breaths,
bed quilts slid sideways,
sunken
sudden sleep

Kissing me,
you hold my head hard.
Your fingers tangled in my hair
to turn my head.
For one quick second
I wonder
if you could break my neck.