AFTER SEX.

Love is a sad state of affairs;

Our sex seduces and ensnares

Ourselves in a complex of stories and plots

That the least and the best of us shares;

But the acts are not the difficult part;

They are easy and exciting to start;

It is the endings that cause

All the heartache and pain

And that leave us confused in the dark;

Yes, it is God, who holds all the light,

But God we must each ask and invite

While the game that we mind

Among us animal kinds

Only needs us this moment to bite;

What a silly, poor human charade

Unknown method that ever got laid

By the foibles and ignorance of God’s greatest creation

As we learned to be clothed and afraid.

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HAMMERING LOVE

Let me love you!

I need to give myself away

Though I realize that you cannot long stay;

And the time that we share

Will my demons lay bare

So to help me to play and to pray;

Yes, God is in our holy communions,

The ones we enter without worry or thought

Because he knows that it is

In such carnal exchanges

That both he and we

For ourselves bought the humanity

That must be rescued

From self pity and doubt

To move onward and upward

And forward and out,

To learn what this journey

In the end is about

By the mistakes and the sins

Which have been wrought.

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SOLITUDE CALLING

Hurry call me! I can no longer wait!

My feelings of longing I must finally sate;

The need that is in me you will help to abate

Just by picking up that God bless-ed phone.

Oh, I know it is early

And so I cannot call you;

The laws of good decency

We must always keep in view;

So here I will wallow and suffer and stew

And learn the value of being alone.

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