Washing Dishes and Watching You Read

Today I watched you from the kitchen window
As you sat on the back lawn reading
In the fleeting afternoon sun
All while I washed the dinner dishes
Flirting with daydreams of you and me
Making afternoon love or going for a walk
Or just doing anything that we could do together
But knowing that you prize your alone time
I continued watching you from afar
As I washed the dinner dishes
Caressing every dish
With a tenderness and love
Hoping that it would be a little way
We could connect and you would know
That I love you with every beat of my heart
And hoping that you won't think me crazy
For feeling the way that I do about you
When I find that even washing dishes
Is a loving and sentuous activity
That feels me with desire
To be with you forever
And for eternity