For the Love of the Bath (A Poem)

I have been dreaming about you for nights
awaiting the moment
to submerge myself in warm water
with salt


candlelight


and roses




I have been longing for the darkness
of a tub 
with a single candle
where I 


can


just


be




For the moment when
I have the time
to fully enjoy
rather than to try
and rush
and emerge
still carrying
my worries




And so I wait
for the moment
like today
when all there was
was a tub
with salt


candlelight


and roses


where I could lay
and rub
my belly
with petals
of divine
purity
and tell all
my sorrows
that they

are

loved


where I could drink
​tea
of weeds
to nourish me
whole
and where i could sing
my heart
home