HIDDEN FEELINGS AND SEXUAL TOPICS

Hidden feelings,
hidden wishes;
awkward pauses,
on sexual topics.

Unwritten stories,
unspoken fantasies,-
imagined caresses
of hidings in bedsheets.

Pre-determined denials,
for when it comes up,
and I lie through my teeth that
"It wouldn't be any good with us."

And yet I know that
if you wanted it,
that I would give it to you
without thinking about it.

Whether now, tomorrow,
or ten years married,
it would be our affair
within a heartbeat.

Because I can't ignore
the thunder in my head
or the pangs that draw me
from deep within my breast,

And it would be no
labor of lust,
for this would be,
an endeavor in love.

Copyright Š2004 Ashi Shadow 8/3/04
on Katie. This is fictional in the sense that it did not come up in that way. Though we certainly would have been a bit awkward when such topics came up in discussing something else (like a poem or a movie or story about some friend).