Sex Is Best

Sex is best
With dangerous strangers,
Hungry, obsessed,
Breathless & nameless
Runaway trains
In a plunging dark
Lit up by showers
Of shuddering sparks.

Sex is best
On the dizzy cliff-edge of taboo
When lust's engine surges
And shadows of shame
And the fear & desire
And pleasure and pain
Spin your animal urges
And rational brain
In a gorgeous confusion
Where all that remains
Is the shock and the wonder
Sin opens you to.

Sex is best
With long-time lovers,
Caressed by memories,
Giggles and cuddles;
The spiralling dance
Up the sparkling night
Then the melting of each
In the other's delight.