What does the body need? Warmth in the night, too little... and the kidneys tighten, then tremble. The hairs of the flesh prickle and stand like soldiers, grim and lonely. Too much heat, the hands and feet itch. The feeling of suffocation swells, how I've wanted these layers off me! the Body has needs that cannot be ignored. That cannot be repressed or denied. What is the strongest urge that is always being repressed and denied? Sexuality is our life force, and yet it does not flow. ~~~ Assemble me. I know not to whom I pray in the dead of night, right before dawn slips through the frame of heart The budding light of a new day, unmarked yet by infidelity she leans in to whisper, Mercy. Inside my mind, I have all but one tear to shed, though within my heart this mercy be none. I toil through the undergarnments of a cold and salted city. The pavements are cracked and beg to be pulled up so the roots of these trees can bend. Moaning and wilted, everpresent and enduring through what season's end? I sigh and close my eyes inside the tunnel train - the worm of urban decay. Trapped with all the souls of wanting and neurosis. Had I known, wanting brings neurosis... I would have thrown everything I owned off the bay. Watched the waves of a wild sea crash upon icy shores. And no one knows but you what goes on in the hearts of aching women, wide awake and yearning not for security or jewels or even the warm embrace of a man. But for her Maker to appear for a moment and lend her a hand. |
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All In
6/23/2015 03:12:17 pm
I love your writing, your raw expression of lust and torment, your desire for completeness and help from the divine. Once again, your words are both sexy and surreal, painful and pleasurable. Keep that balance of light and dark, it's real and what life feels like.
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Dorrina
6/25/2015 10:47:29 am
thank you for your kind words.
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