My dreams of you almost always include a bed.
Beds of all manners and descriptions and sizes. Sometimes they are elegant, luxurious, high four poster affairs with thick, heavy covers in a large airy room. Expensive rooms.
Other times, just a dark, worn pad covering part of the floor in a room with no or flicking light. Abandoned building rooms, filling an immediacy.
An endless variety of beds in between.
Some beds we rush into. The destination and our intentions clear.
Other beds found at the end of a wonderful day together. Enjoying every minute with you, knowing that we will end there but in no hurry. Savoring the slow passage of time.
Beds we sneak into. Taking great care to avoid being recognized.
Beds in which we tempt fate. Chosen close to home, friends and family. Paid and entered in haste.
Familiar beds.
Strange beds.
The bed in my apartment where I long for you most nights.
Or your bed on those intoxicating nights when your family is away and we risk all.
Beds requiring entrance and exit in the dark of night. Silently.
Beds we go to proudly and openly. Our destination and intentions clear.
Beds found on short notice, the result of a midday call or chance meeting.
Other beds long planned. Found after an exchange of e-mails, rearrangement of schedules and with stories of our supposed whereabouts ready.
Beds in rooms we enter separately, discreetly.
Other beds where we check in together. Taking only one look to know we plan to share a bed.
Beds where we try to be quiet, but often failing.
Other beds where we have no need or concern for discretion. Our cries rattling walls.
Beds we leave and avoid contact with others.
Beds where we seek to draw attention. Matching smiles with the hotel maid as she finds us still in bed. Or when leaving, just as she is ready to make up the room.
Beds where we whisper our hopes and desires. Our fantasies. Our needs.