Archive for July, 2006

I use
to
cry
when
I came.

At the
moment
of climax,
as
the
muscles
tensed
then
released
and
my
body
was flooded
with
that
amazing
sensation,
I was
shattered.

I felt
myself
breaking
apart
into a
1000
tiny
pieces
and
I would
cry.

I would
feel
connected
until
that
moment,
until
I came
and
then
I would
feel
the truth.

The truth
of
bodies
in motion
and
friction
and
know
I had
never
really
given
myself.

A feeling
of
complete
and
utter
isolation
would
wash
over me
with
him
still
inside me
and
I would
cry.

There was
nothing
lonelier
than that
moment.
Of going
from the
height
of ecstasy
to the
depths
of despair
in a single
second,
a single
twitch
of a muscle.

There was
no way to
explain
my tears.

No way
to look
into the
confused face
of the man
I was
with
and
say
what was
going on
inside me.

That I was
breaking apart,
that I was
alone,
that
he was
inside me
and I was
still
not
connected
to him,
not in
any
real
sense.

Average
simple
mundane
the sounds
of daily life…

Sirens scream,
people argue,
children laugh,
Blackbirds cry,
Robins sing,
the faint whine
of a lawn mower engine…

I lay in the
cool darkness
of my room,
curtains blocking
the sun,

the sounds,
the sounds
of daily life
flood in,

a symphony.

I stand
in the dark
under
a starless sky
breathing deep
the night air.

There is a
promise
of rain,
the
intoxicating
scent
of wild phlox.

Soft voices,
the neighbor’s
T.V.
and the
hum of
the locust
keep me
company
and
fill
me to
overflowing.