sex_without_love Sharon Olds How do they do it, the ones who make love without love? Beautiful as dancers, Gliding over each other like ice-skaters over the ice, fingers hooked inside each other's bodies, faces red as steak, wine, wet as the children at birth, whose mothers are going to give them away. How do they come to the come to the come to the God come to the still waters, and not love the one who came there with them, light rising slowly as steam off their joined skin? These are the true religious, the purists, the pros, the ones who will not accept a false Messiah, love the priest instead of the God. They do not mistake the lover for their own pleasure, they are like great runners: they know they are alone with the road surface, the cold, the wind, the fit of their shoes, their over-all cardio vascular health--just factors, like the partner in the bed, and not the truth, which is the single body alone in the universe against its own best time. 080707 ... Syrope je t'aime, moi non plus 080708 ... unhinged the vast majority of it meaningless_sex violent selfish whiny meaningless_sex and even the one man i loved for most of the time we dated we didn't have sex because having sex with me 'depressed him' too embarrassed to say i didn't know much and most of what i did know was bad meaningless this monster eats it's own tail 080708 ... unhinged chaste celibate aside from a few moments of weakness the last one proving that i need the vow of celibacy to fix my heart 080708 ... Ouroboros has allowed me to get in touch with my sexuality, but at the cost of my self-respect. 110214 ... unhinged . and now the person i love is mad at me *sigh* 110214 ... a clever disguise That's a great way to put it, Ouroboros. 120321 what's it to you? who go blather from