Carnal

your instincts
animals... overpowering

your breath
pins me down

your eyes
engulf me

I feel upon me
your power

I am in a hypnotic trance

what is it that we share?

I see it vividly in your glare

I am so full of shame
for what I ask of you
unspoken

you hold me firm in your grip

I am charmed,
alarmed

I cannot even breathe

when you come near

you just sweep me away

from the worldly stares

no one can even dare

to desire me unaware

Verse: Ravprinderya
Image: Zagarev, photodom.com

Passions

I cannot contain passions
that keep rising inside
but my spirit is choked
by the walls built over centuries of rigidity -
"A woman attracts..and so is the attacker...
of men's fragile control of their bodies"
But I will break free
and let loose all my desires,
and seek my release
in this body and through it.

Verse Colin Lascale
Image snail000

Pause

A pause in the movement
of life,
on planks of deadness
near the flow.
Light fills in
every pore and crevice.
I open up courage
and with it my mind
and body.
No desire to see
what hope holds out
for me.
It's time to float on life.