(I came across this. Though my life is vastly different today, I felt compelled to share it. I wrote it 12 years ago. I think I tried, but this is asking for something that was further away from me than I ever imagined. I’m amazed I posted it at all.)

I select you to live

To cherish and forgive,

Hold me when I cry

Grasp my needs as I try

To open windows today

That which my heart may

Be drawn inside your passion

Un-scorned if that is fashion.

.~

I’m speaking of society

That ownership of sanity

That describes our reality

That denies our sanctity.

.~

We are alone with our lives

And our government derives

A certain ruling on love

Holds a well formed fitted glove.

That seals our fate

With quiet mandate

Yet that instinct sings the blues.

Sultry, sensual, sexy you

.~

My desires are skin deep

As I travel and your eyes keep

Me moving forward I reap

Such beauty I want to leap

.~

Only in your arms at this moment and tomorrow

And wish no one to legislate otherwise today.