Slowly yet urgently I shut the bathroom door.
My body knows the routine and I am naked in an instant.
I turn the water faucet to hot and my feet are in.
Ohhh, the anticipation of the hot water, is such sweet release.
As I ease my aching legs in down, I can feel the steam surrounding me, like a mother's warm embrace or a lovers arms wrapping me, enveloping me, like a cocoon. A safe intoxicating cocoon.
I turn the faucet even hotter, so the arteries in my legs start to rivit and pulse with life, jumping and vibrating with life as the blood starts to flow , no longer trapped and clogged, the blood flows , almost to fast, but I feel the life in my legs, and I want more. So I turn the faucet all the way to hot, knowing it won't last very long before the hot water runs cold and I have to shut it off.
The stress of the day seeps away and the water consumes me. My very being, consumed and I open myself to it like a newborn baby is to a mother's breast.
I submerge my body into the steaming hot water. Leaning all the way into it. My whole body tingles as the water covers me completely. Only my face is dry. My arms go up over my head as I close my eyes and let go of everything. The feeling is like no other. I hear the water as it ripples around me from my movement. The sinking sensation surrounds me as all the pain in my legs subsides and the stress of the day floats away.
My bathtub. My refuge. My healing place. My serenity. My spiritual side kicks in and most all of my problems are...