Quest Answered

I slide sideways through days
Fantasies bred on each interesting face
A romance crafted on every bus ride
When handsome men hold my hand
Gorgeous sleek bodies rub against me
Nerds in glasses stumble over jokes
In a pointless effort at flirtation

Pretense, easy armour
Against the crackling solitude
Found only in crowds

Practiced deception, a priceless asset
When trawling across chat rooms -
An irrevocable asylum
For the bashful and reticent
Meeting faceless faces
Made painless, by the cloak
Of invisibility and distance

Yet courage cannot deny
Failed passes and loathsome leers
Making night’s reality more biting

I was the cycle of day
The chicken-and-egg debate
The serpent eating its own tail
A catch-22 growing ever perilous
Increasingly, I was the shell
Of a life measured by the sun

Into this mire
And cramped cubicles
You waltzed in with easy grace
Armed with a toothy smiley
And perfect spellings
Meeting my wicked thrusts
With a cheeky parry of your own
Answering my droll humor
With your own class of absurdity
Infusing a hopeful perspective
Into my world-weary views

Miracle or gift
Or plain coincidence?

Hundreds of sunrises later,
I still ask the dark night
Did you know me -
In simpler worlds and gentler times?

When love was not a
Siege and surrender playstation

When souls sought mates
Without concern for symmetry

When love was warmly held hands
And sweaty intertwined limbs
Of rippling sinews
And heaving flanks
Sweet and tangy explorations
Mantras of nips and kisses
Skin bitten and blessed
Caressed curves
And worshipped mounds
Primeval rhythm aspired
In the echoes of primal desires
And love disguised is bared
When in passion’s thrall
You seek me and anchor me;
A harbour for my heart
In your molten embrace