.with you in my arms.

I pick you up

bounce you to sleep

cradle you

when I'm sure you're truly asleep

I crawl into bed with you in my arms

lay down, s l o w l y

19 pounds on my chest 

a weighted hug

just lay there

my right arm cradling your head and my left holding your bum

Drifting off to sleep, I think, I could hug you forever 

I wake up sometime later, you're still on my chest but were no longer hugging

the separateness is lost 

I can't feel where I end and you begin 

we're one, coalesced again 

my arms are wrapped around myself, us

to remember when we were

once one, now only tightly interwoven

I adore you, forever