"Turn off the light, baby" she asked so tenderly.
"I ain't in shape like i used to be"
"But baby you know I like looking while
I am loving you! I want to see you.
All of you in your natural beauty."
"Baby please..." she asks.
So as the light goes off
we make love to a symphony
on oneness in a harmony
so sweet and replete with
sensual pleasure, as angels herald
the beauty of our bliss
and what they miss
for God only gave this
to his humanity.
As we laid she whispers, "talk to me!"
Inside I cry "turn off the lights!"
As she tenderly stokes my head
she comforts me waiting for......
the right words to fall from my lips
the right words to the whispered of our love
the sensual expressions of intimacy
but I am afraid
I cry inside "turn of the lights!"
And she still want's to look.
To see me.
"I love you!" she says so intimately.
With a hesitant tremble of my very soul
I whisper "I love you too..."
know that this light of love is too bright
for the very thing I so desired
I fear.
I fear this love, a reciprocal love.
an enduring love, and eternal love
because I have never had a love
like this before
and I it scare me
for I don't feel I deserve it
I can't have it
but why not
"turn off the lights" my soul cries.
I do not know
but this light is so bright
penetrating my macho ego - darkness
illuminating my chauvinistic mind - darkness
infiltrating my selfish soul - darkness
soothing my lonely spirit - darkness
but I am comfortable. safe in my foolish state.
"I want to share your world, your life, because
I love you" she speaks into my bare chest.
So I hit the light switch and welcomed her into me.

Wow, this piece said a lot...glad you stopped being so afraid to let that kind of love in...turn those lights on...and make her leave the lights on too! We all get old eventually, and I ALWAYS leave the lights on what-eva! It's still love!

rykh - it's a bet for our next spl! i'd love to share it.

red - it's a beautiful thing to be totally free - lights on - and know that you will not be rejected.

this peace spoke volumes!!! & i loved the way
you chose to show that we sometimes shy
away from being seen emotionally as well as
physically... that!... was what got me! :)

thank you for sharing.

itsallLove, chile.

elayne.

layne - you know a man need a good woman to really help him know himself. i don't care what a brohter says - he need his woman!!!!!

this was an eye opener love the flow of this it pose depth

There's not enough I can say about this, truly awesome piece...I guess what struck me the most was the tender way you went about talking about what some fear the most, true intimacy. Wow....

a dear sister of mine once told me...
it's usually not the fear of loving someone
but the fear of allowing someone to love you...
that is the ultimate fear in love...

Poet...you amaze...always...you amaze

I was enlightened in this peace!

You dear sister is right. Especially for us as men. Tought shell only covers a hear that really needs a Sista's love. Bless ya. k


a dear sister of mine once told me...
it's usually not the fear of loving someone
but the fear of allowing someone to love you...
that is the ultimate fear in love...

Poet...you amaze...always...you amaze

I was enlightened in this peace!