I’d like to lie beside you

I’d like to lie beside you,
so we’d be face to face.
Then we could  at last enjoy
A sweet  visual embrace.

Eye to eye,
I look at you.
Beloved face is
in my view.

Then I take my fingers
way across your brow;
my fingers  linger on your lips-
somewhere,somehow.

.
I trace these dear  lines of old age
which wander round your eyes.
I run my fingers down your nose.
My touch is satisfied.

I’d like to trace your smiling lips.
Rhat look so fine and strong.
With my  own pink finger tips.
Would you think  me wrong?

Your powerful arms enclose me
And I  hug  your shoulders now.
I’ll rub you down with fragrant cream
From your toes up to your brow.

I’d like to boil your hankies
In an ancient pan
On a big coal fire..
Though the coal fires are long gone.

I’d like to rest my curly head
Upon your bony chest
I’ll test your antiperspirant
And the whiteness of your vest.

I’ll treat you very tenderly
and keep you free of dirt
For as they  used to say one time:
Oh,how real loving hurts!