Mother and Wife

Mother to Child
One day I will search for you.
Find you where I lie 
in rose-colored fields 
full of life and warmth.
The day will lend on end 
to your soft hands and warm cheeks 
flush with playful intrigue.
There I will be looking back at you.
Smiles all around.
Face to face with scrunched-up 
noses.

Wife to Husband
Light will dance 
for us in candle, 
sun, and bulb.
Little lines 
in corners of our eyes
shine with experience 
of the years gone by.
My love, I draw you near, 
taste your lips, 
and squeeze you tight.
Alone with you, I wish to be, 
but alone is hard to come by.

~Cynthia Schaefer