What makes you think
that just because I said I love you that
I want to fuck you,
that I want to put my head between your
shaking thighs and
take you into my mouth and down into my
soul and mind and
body and spirit and all of me into you, part
of you, Forever.
Your arrogance, in
thinking that all I want is your skin against mine,
rubbing and vibrating
and holding on with nothing between us but
air and breath and
the heavy wall of denial that could hold back
oceans of tears and
years of wishful thinking.
Your love is nothing
compared with the years of history and violence and
fighting for all the
wrong causes, dying inside while the body still lives, and
lying together and
lying to each other and lying to the world and lying side
by side near
the ocean's edge.
Your hands entwined
in thick ropes of matted and golden hair, clinging to the
last pieces of life
before submergence in the deepest waters of the mind, descending
staircases to infinity
before rising on the tides and swimming towards the shore
of insanity, blocked
off by the long hair that creates the passage between now and
forever and eternity
between the first two fingers of your left hand.