NEXT TO ME

I lay awake. Feeling you next to me. Feeling the warmth of your body against my back. I close my eyes, and feel your arm reach over me. Your hand moves down my arm, resting at my waist. Where it belongs. I can feel you breathing. You let out a sigh of sleep, your arm moves slightly as your breath is released from your chest. Warm on the back of my neck. I lay, not wanting to move. Not wanting to lose that feeling of peace I have when you are next to me. The feeling that I am safe, that nothing can get to me. I lay wrapped in your body, shielded from the world around me. I close my eyes, and begin to drift off into my own sleep-lined thoughts. Absent-mindedly, I roll over to face my empty bed.