I had a friend who told me that he never wanted to have a child, because then he wouldn’t get to be the child. I understand that choice, but for me the situation was very different: I had been given so much, I wanted a family I could give to, only to find they gave me far more than I could ever give them.
Tag: Love
intimate
an intimate moment
seems a lifetime,
so hungry are we
for them,
and so rare
as they often are.
an intimate moment,
is of course a lifetime
captured in an instant,
with only two
real participants
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To share is human:
Love Simply
Daughters
You wished they lived in always-joy,
But settle, then, for moments:
You pray they live in never-pain,
But settle for postponements
You dreamed you’d give them everything,
And that it would continue:
To see them feel kind of love
That every day
They give you
To share is human:
one that was.
one that was,
and two that were:
three that met
with sorrow —
one that is,
now two are not:
reaching for
tomorrow.
one that was,
who stretches on:
carrying
a burden
love that was
is evermore:
just behind
the curtain
To share is human:
But, Now…
“… that burning part of me …”
A man, throughout my life, each day
I find that I want sex:
That burning part of me,
Pressing and gaunt —
But now you’re here, another slant
Is seared into my thoughts;
It isn’t sex, my dear:
It’s you I want
It isn’t blind desire leading,
Negligent of goal:
It isn’t ‘horniness’
That doesn’t care
It’s you and only you I want –
I think I always did:
Before, though, I’d not dreamed yet
You were there
To share is human:
The Kiss of Demarcation
Their eyes had met, but they had really not
Two friends of friends, who’d travelled much the same –
And yet, had not so much as spoken
When they kissed
She kissed him rashly, passion fierce and true
And he responded, in a newfound way
He’d never known – or known he could –
And all was changed.
