“Goodnight darlin”

Until now I’d lost all hope,

And then you were there

in your tall, handsome jeans

and cowboy boots,

I watched you walk

knowing that I already loved you,

I saw your face and you mine,

Your voice low, steady, perfect,

Lips parted to kiss mine

warm hands lifting my face like a flower

turned to the sun,

And butterflies flew wildly against

their cage of ribs in my chest,

I saw the story of new life 

behind the darkness of my eyelids,

One of you and I from beginning 

to the tenderness of old age,

“Goodnight darlin” you said

our lips parting hours later,

My eyes opened 

and I knew 

you loved me too