[ fAwL ] Relief

    
You are asleep
---unaware;   
head in my lap  
I calmly stroke your hair  
   
combing out the week's  
festering frustrations  
with loving fingers  
   
removing whatever  
disparaging doubt  
clinging in lingerings  
   
---massaging shoulders  
and neck, kneading  
muscle tensions;    
   
hands roaming about  
uprooting apprehensions  
   
in want of nothing more  
wishing for nothing less  
   
than to relieve your stress  
as you enter the door  
strip you free of dress  
lay you on the floor  
   
have you under me  
rather than duress of daily  
circumstance