You know, maybe
It's the way your voice wraps
All around me when I'm aching cold
How it's there to greet me, to kiss me, when my bare feet hit the floor
Fresh from the warmth of water
Straight into the arms of my lover
And I feel... safe.

Safe like when I was a child
Where my only sanctuary
Was the corner of my closet,
Where I could write undisturbed
Where I could copy word after word
From every love story I'd ever heard
ever read, learning what they meant
by "happily ever after"

Absorbing information and hoping
It would find me in that corner
Telling myself that, if I could surpass
The knowledge that existed in this
house, I could leave.. I could be free.

Just, maybe
Its that yearn in the glow of your eyes
The moment they catch mine and
I dont feel guilty for staring
In fact I rather like when you catch me
As you grin from one ear to the other
I know you see further than the exterior
And that feels like a hug to my inner self
Who is confident in her brain and demeanor
Yet nervous about the exterior
Since.. we're only human after all

Then you're close to me and I...
I get that same feeling I do when
I climb into my own bed following
nights of being somewhere else
As though I've escaped the uncomfortable premise of being anywhere but home, sometimes
you kind of..
Just feel like home.

Oh, but it feels so good.
The way I shiver when you kiss me,
the tired that washes over me in your heavenly sanctuary

Maybe
its all the things we have in common
new stuff you show me and
information you teach me
You are never afraid to open my eyes,
While I am never afraid of what I see.

Truly its all of these things
Perhaps its even more,
like the simple idea of being yours
For a lifetime.
No matter the reasoning,
Perhaps I just want more.