hello lover. it's been a long time. too long.

i'm starting to get it. maybe it'll even stick this time, because what i'm hearing (finally -hearing-) now, i know she's told me before.

she's told me, point blank, flat out, that i'm important to her. very important. period. frankly, i haven't thought or believed that in some time.

we connected, were intimate, in a way, ways actually, that we haven't in a long time. not sex, but physical intimacy and longing that we haven't shared in, well, too long. for a long time i've kept that out of our day because i was sure she neither wanted nor missed it. i was wrong on both counts.

what we shared wasn't sex, although it was physical. it was intense and immediate, it was powerful and deep. it was the first embrace of lovers who've been apart for too long. much too long. yet it was unhurried. we shared it and enjoyed it. reveled in the rightness and the warmth and the familiarity of each others' touch.