Shower

Standing in the shower

Letting the warm water 

Run over my body

Just a few minutes more

Imagining it's your warmth

Against my skin

Holding me close

Covering me like a safety net.

If I can delude myself

For just a few moments

Of the emptiness of this place

Without you here

I'll take it.

In my mind

I can smell your

Freshly showered skin

As I step from my own shower

Half expecting to see you

Towelling off too

As I enter our bedroom

I can almost smell your soap

In the moist air around me

And it makes me feel home again.

Thinking of all the small moments

That I love to share with you

Cuts the loneliness just enough

So that I can bare the empty space

Until I can return to your arms.