Can you feel my breath
\nup and down your neck?
\nI know you are asleep
\nBut I can see the tingles dance all over your back
\nI move closer and softly whisper in your ear
\nI am tired of this battle year after year
\nI want to be your one and only
\nthe one you feel next to you at night
\nI want to be the only one you see
\nI feel the heat of your body it keeps me warm
\nI am lost in your scent
\nand how it makes me both weak and drunk
\nBut the distance that you keep
\nis farther and farther than the day before
\neven though my love for you
\ngrows each day, more and more
\nI slide my hand up and down your chest
\nand I am obsessed
\nwith the softness of your skin
\nAs you lay there and calmly rest
\nmy fingers slowly trace
\nevery single line and curve on your face
\nI wrap my leg around yours
\nAnd pray I can remove her out of your dreams
\nmake her disappear
\nand I want you to whisper only my name as we make love tonight
\nI want only you, not this ghost of us
\nthat has come in between us
\nA vision I wish you could see
\nevery time you close your eyes <\/p>\n
—<\/p>\n
Yes I can feel your breath on my neck
\nYou know how I love it when you do that
\nand how it sends tingles up and down my back
\nI’m awake, but pretend to sleep
\nwhen you whisper me softly, all of your dreams
\nI cannot think of another person
\nthat I would ever want to wake up beside
\nand if all goes as planned
\nwe will be together until the day we die
\nI know you are nervous when you see me this stressed
\nbut sometimes I have a lot on my mind
\nand I don’t want to seem so obsessed
\nI sometimes fear that I will scare you away
\nif I were to tell you all the things my heart wants to say
\nit’s just that I love you more and more
\nand twice as much as the day before
\nI don’t mean to be distant
\nI don’t want anything to come between us
\njust know that you are my one and only
\nknow how proud and lucky I feel
\nand with you in my heart, I never be lonely
\nI dare not to think
\nabout not having you in my life
\nbecause everytime I close my eyes
\nI see only you, my beautiful wife<\/p>\n
This poem is a part of The Collaboration Project
\n* Thanks to Shannon Wendler for allowing me to work on her poem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"