Temptation’s handmaiden lays a veil over my mind;
I am covered by a universe free from the gravity
of a prudish mankind.
Curiosity blasts me into this space but not before
social decency can tether itself to my body;
I fly as if in a dream but remain awake.
My heart thumps wildly in my throat and beats
itself against the cage; I swallow the beat
as it rages to the tune of my conscience.
The beat falls to its knees within me and kneels
in the pit of my stomach; I feel my anxious heart
rock like a nervous ship on an angry sea.
Amorous eyes melt and drip like candles and bind
to me like wax to a wrist; I choose to be helpless,
and I choose to be devoured.
Temptation opens its jaws and swallows my spirit;
I sink into this moment of carnal truth and kneel
in its pit. I rock myself in the stomach of lust.