Comfortable

you looked at me
smiling
ease melting out of your eyes

you spoke quietly
punctuating certain words
like "if" and "when"

and then you paused
as if caught deep in a thought
that held its arms around you
and i wanted you to let me into that thought
but its arms slowly slipped away
releasing you

and you smiled again,
whispering, "you know what I mean?"

I nodded,
"I know"

and I knew,
knew what comfortable meant.