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Learning To Distinguish Respect, Love And Lust

you must know how to distinguish respect
from love and lust, it is like this way

when both of you are dressed
there will always be respect

and when both of you begin to talk
and share an intimacy like holding hands

and caressing faces and closing your eyes
and making hints between here and there

when like a poem you are still at the stage
of groping for images and metaphors

you are still at the stage of love
in the process of an eye contact and slight rubbing
of hands and hips and sides and sensing the smell

of a scent and telling that person that there is this
cuteness and loveliness on a certain surface

but then beware when both of you start to undress
in a dimly lit room where the windows are closed
where the curtains are left hanging when their ribbons
are let loose when the door is locked when there is nothing
but nudity and fullness of desire

in here you do not ask for any permission anymore
you do not ask for a glass of water or for a slice of bread
both of you are thirsty and hungry

on this stage of lust, you are cannibals
and savages, throwing away all the lessons that gentleness
taught us: you throw away your clothers, your underwears
anywhere, and they all fall in different corners

then you start eating each other, every skin is licked,
every scent is tasted, every thing is bitten
in all wanton greed, you want to consume every self that you
claim you own.

you all give up what you are.after such feelings
as respect, and love and lust, these two things come last.

giving and taking. but for me it is more of the giving.
i call it satiation. because love and sex, is nothing but the
giving of self and taking nothing in return.

poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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