All That I Ask Is...

Just to hold your hand

To smell your hair mixed with sea salt

To taste the skin on your neck

To look up from a kiss and fall into eternity

To hold your soft feet under my rough thumbs. To give them relief.

To hear your hopes and fears. To tell you mine.

To know your dreams. To hold them and keep them safe 

  on the days when you cannot believe in them.

To feed you chocolate and berries.

To lay my head in your lap.

To cuddle under a blanket and share ten thousand sunsets with you.

To write you silly poems.

To carry you in from the car and tuck you into bed.

To make you breakfast before you wake.

To share secrets with your cat.

To give you the ecstasy that you deserve.

To feel like a teenager with you.

To change the world with you, side by side. To teach love.

To sing your songs with you.

To watch your back and to know that you are watching mine.

To swim with you, naked in moonlight.

To know the real you.

To whatever Gods listen, these things I ask.

I will strive to be worthy of them.