Today I love you quietly, softly. <br />Why? <br />I don’t know – I just do. <br />Amidst the cleaning and the packing, <br />The last minute floor-washing and drying, <br />Quietly is just how I’ve been loving you. <br /> <br />Today I don’t have words. <br />Don’t know where they went. <br />They’re not on strike, <br />Not taking a private holiday <br />Or jour de congé, <br />They just seem <br />To have curled up inside me <br />Like a contented cat on a carpet, <br />Basking in the deep red heat <br />Of glowing embers and coals in the hearth: <br />Replete; <br />Complete; <br />Asleep; <br />Yet no further from awake <br />Than spark from flame. <br /> <br />Today I’ve been loving you quietly; <br />But then, <br />There’s always tonight…….<br /><br />Tony Jolley<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/loving-you-quietly/
