To Bathe My Thoughts In Gentleness

When sky of night begins to fade from sky of waking sun

The words of many thoughts arise to bring to me the ones

To decorate a tranquil ease relieving restless wonders

While a long day's journey weighs heavy on my shoulders

I think of waters softly warming away the aches of living

Fragrant soaps welcoming my tired muscles and giving

My senses over to a pleasure where calm returns within

Greeting me as it's own timeless wanted friend

I think of cotton softened towels to dry my dampened skin

Sheets and blankets to turn down and slip between them

I reach for pillows next to me to bring myself a comfort

To snuggle close to shelter me as I release from earth

All the moments of a day that passed by while awake

Stretching me to the limits that all my me could take

Delicate breezes soothe my breathing my mind ventures through

All the faces, places, things I love and want to do

A deeper longing stirs within me of wanting someone there

Who without a word to say could understand and share

Not so much about my stresses but more about repose

Knowing that sometimes a longing is a need to quiten woes

Carried on a weary mind through days and weeks and years

Seeking a place to find release from all their worlds of care

If only for a moment's stillness to take me in it's arms

Allowing mind, body, soul a resting place from harms

Freeing senses from demands to be stronger or become

Something for everything that needs me to be strong

I listen for a voice to bathe my thoughts with gentleness

Whispering a healing balm into a restfulness

I close my eyes to imagine what she might look like

Then drift away to slumber land between the day and night.

Jade Jaspers