I watch you sleep
Greek scarf
And patchwork quilt
Snug around you.
I love you best
With my mind
Always afraid
I do not love you well enough
With my body.
Cerebral,
I think they call it.
Though I have heard less noble words
Regards to me
Filtered through denim and Daytons.
I love you best in the morning
My mind free of the chainmail armor I don each day
The more we can forget ourselves, it seems,
The closer we approach true love.
