I
want to go lay on your bed, you on your back with your left arm
outstretched just right for me to sidle up to you, my head resting
perfectly on your shoulder, my left leg over yours and tucked under the
back of your shin. I want to snuggle with you and put my left arm on
your chest and run my fingers up and over you, over your shoulder, touch
your ear, run my nails down your arm until my hand falls to your chest
where I feel you breathe in and out in and out and in again until you
rest your hand on top of mine, feeling how much smaller it is, and
envelop it altogether.
I want to snuggle with you and have your body warm mine. I want to snuggle with you and stretch to put my cold toes over yours and laugh at the jolt of cold that now courses over you. We'll laugh and you'll ask how any person can always be so cold and bring me tighter and closer to you, my head now on your chest, you pulling the covers over us.
I want to snuggle with you because I love hearing your heartbeat. I love listening and then proudly pronouncing like a five year old, "I can hear your heart beat, babe," and you, half asleep, say back, "Oh yeah? What's it saying?" I'll just smile to myself and not say anything. We both know what it says. We both know it says that right now, it's perfect. Right now, there isn't anything that could make this better.
I want to snuggle with you and not have you think about work or class or the score of the game. I want to snuggle with you in silence, and just be. I want to snuggle with you and know that you enjoy it just as much as I do only to have the silence interrupted by a joke about the neighbor downstairs ruining a great moment with his loud rock music and we'll both laugh.
I want to snuggle with you because with you I feel safe. I love the smell of your cologne, the way you think I'm sleeping and kiss the top of my head. I want to snuggle with you and close my eyes and feel like everything is going to be okay, it's going to be alright.
