The Missing Piece

I want you to read me the paper while I drink coffee in our bed and resist getting up for the day

I want to sit on the back porch and drink white wine with you when you come home from work

I want the simple comfort of our daily life

Captured in soft phrases like 

"What would you like for dinner" or "Did you remember to wash my blue shirt?"

I want to abandon all of our responsibilities on a Sunday afternoon

And drive away with you.

I want to care for you when your sick

I want to cook bread and soup and sings songs to our children

Say prayers for each other's keep

And never stop planning our next adventure.

There was a time when I wanted everything

I wanted all the freedom and possibility in the world

I wanted to never be tied to one person.

But in my one desire to know you,

All else disappeared

And now all I want is a life less ordinary

With you.