- Non-Erotic Poetry
- Reluctant Reversal
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Click hereThis was never meant to be
The province of pain
No anger, no fear
Just gentle flirtation
And a blurring of innocence
I wanted to know
Whether I could reach you
I wanted to share
The desires you inspired
Recapture a forgotten feeling
The wind over water
Cooling breeze lighting fires
Squinting into the sun
To catch your eyes
And fingershiver your spine
I had never expected
The drama of these days
I would not have believed
The ground so dangerous
The edge to be so close
A need for restraint
Was an outdated concept
Until I looked in your eyes
Fires long burned out
Reignited in deep pale blue
I was heedless of control
My integrity intoxicated
By the nefarious nectar
Of reawakened impetuosity
The slightest taste of your breath
So now I’m in danger
Of losing you completely
Being banished from the circle
Sent away from your touch
And hidden from your eyes
How can I save myself
From the depths of your denial
Descend to ladders beginning
And stand upon the ground
Not dig myself a cellar
How can I reach desired end
Deny the lover but save the friend?
- COMMENTS
LadyJeanneabout 19 years agopassions, out of control desires, and an undeniable temptation - recipe for destruction. This piece had me shivering from start to finish, and left me feeling a little bleak melancholy. It may have hit too close to home, these lines especially:
"I wanted to know
Whether I could reach you"
You did, you did. Thank you for a wonderful poem. LJ
jd4georgeover 19 years agoonce told me to cut my favorite line, and then go thruogh and cut all that I found clever. It's a bit of advice that has occasionally worked charms for me.
When you cut through the "nefarious nectar of reawakened impetuosity" you find something quite wonderful:
I never expected
The drama of these days
I would not have believed
The ground so dangerous
The edge so close
