Passion splits skin like
an overripe melon
straining its boundaries –
Daring to go beyond
convention,
what’s safe.
Comfort assumes new meaning,
reaches deeper –
until again, it stretches.
And what once exhausted
now sets the tone
for beginning anew.
Unzipping skin
in unabashed nakedness –
standing or lying
or sitting before another
like a well-polished mirror –
a little too frank,
yet one cannot look away.
Hot breath steams it over
momentarily, only to resolve
into palpable dampness –
running from the glass
like beads of sweat
flowing freely from rosy flesh.
Rivulets of salt and desire
commingling with sounds
prehistoric,
otherworldly –
a snake uncoiling,
then poised to strike –
and, once bitten,
one’s capacity for tolerating
the sweet venom increases
until, eyes dilated,
pulses pounding,
the blood purifies itself –
and we are healed.
Saucy!
Lucy, ha-ha! I wrote this in a weekend poetry group – one of only two I’ve ever attended in my life – and have edited and played with it for over ten years, now! Hope you enjoyed it 😉
This is quite unlike what I know of you Bela and I remain intrigued. I never cease to be amazed at the many layers that each one of us carry through our lives.Is this what is being human ……. or something more?
Shakti
Shakti, it’s being creative, I think! Passionate about life! My husband and I both got a chuckle out of your comment – because, over the years, he’s seen me shock a fair number of people, mostly in a good way 😉 I’m usually pretty reserved, but watch out! Poetry gives me license to say and do what I think only poetry or performance art, for example, allows. Bless you, dear one.
Bela, you surely know the art of playing with words. 🙂
It’s just fun!
I was waiting for the word ‘prehistoric’ in one form or the other. Thank you for completing this marvellously passionate poem for me!
Haha – glad you enjoyed that choice of words! Yes, that kind of passion definitely takes us back to our origins, much as childbirth does, no? 😉
Oh my Bela! I thoroughly enjoyed this sapiosexual journey! “…and we are healed” renewed(?), reinvigorated(?), pleasurably soaked together in erotica’s sorcery(?)! 😈 😉
Mmmm, thank you.
My pleasure. Glad you enjoyed it! 🙂