Our days are packed
with children and jobs and
chores and details
and when everything
gets quiet
after 10pm
she and I
limp into bed
there is quiet ecstasy
laying my body down
on cool soft sheets
my back muscles releasing
exhaling long and slow
and it is a silent wonder
to feel her soft warm
body at my side
and in unrehearsed unison
we both turn
on our left sides
and she wraps herself
around me
and she presses herself
into my back
her curvy body heat
surging through my body
with a narcotic immediacy
and sometimes
she pushes my shirt up
and she pulls her shirt up
and I feel the soft force
of her two comforting breasts
naked against my back
the sexiest heating pads in the world
and I am in her embrace
and I want this moment
of complete temporal and emotional
happiness to last
forever
and I smile at my good fortune
and this is my favorite time of the day
and I drift into the cool darkness
suspecting that
this is the best moment of my life.