You Smell
The morning breakfast your roommate is burning downstairs and wake up
You smell the dog as she kisses your face
You smell the rain gathering to fall later in the day whenever it deigns to do so
You smell the clean laundry as you fold it
You smell the mountain air as you drive with the windows down
You smell the dinner I made us
You smell the candle burning before you blow it out and smell the smoke
and I smell
I smell You
Your smell
wherever I go, whatever I do
the world is wide and new
and all the marvelous things I learn and see do not change the fact
that it all
smells
like You
