Of Wants

I want to hide you in a hug,

And watch you curl up

In the warmth of my heart.

I want to tell the quivers in my fingers to beware

For they are to hold you in them forever.

I want to watch your skin

Come alive in goosebumps.

Every time I touch you,

And spend lives naming each one them.

I want your hair to fall on my face

And turn my afternoons to nights.

I want to pause time

To let your laughter drug my ears.

I want to love you hard.

So hard, you wake up in the middle of the night,

And ask yourself if it is all real.

I want to be there right beside, 

Smiling back at you,

So you know it is.