seeking sweet asylum from pronouncing words right
or choosing the right ones at all
let yourself, instead, get better at tumbling
fumbling for the truth of
what turns you hot and happy
let yourself get messy--
you don't have to do so in public
not even with others quite yet
you can start in your bedroom
all alone with the hum of
your most tantalizing music
you can start by letting
one honest wish
fall out of your lips
you can start
by imagining
you're meant for it
that you wouldn't want it
if it didn't want you back
and mutuality is heaven in the sack
if you've gotten this far
and you're ready for more
you can dress yourself as a lover
in the colors and underwear
of a sensual lust affair
with your most turned-on libido
begin with your own recalibrating
unlock the knob of
your turn table
you won't be able to make all the music alone
but, at first, you can bang the drums
let them know you're ready
and then, with the steady rhythm
of your song, bouncing off you
like a love charm
you will draw near
your most resonant
peers
if this scares you
because you already have a mate
or you think it might change your fate
'cuz perhaps you like your own gender
or you wanna be
a gender bender
or you might have to stop pretending
that whatever ways you've been spending
your sensuality, is true
because you're afraid
this might cause conflict
or worse, that you're not worth it
because you think there's not possibly
someone else who's meant to be
licking you from head-to-toe
meeting you in your favorite flow
because you think you're not allowed
to have a favorite
because maybe all of this lovin'
would require you
to melt more
i say to you this:
MELT
become like caramel cream
deep dazzle finger-licking
sweet saucified surrender
even if there's nowhere to put it
no a la mode to match
your flow, quite yet
it will still feel better than
cold and chewy
scared and unwilling to soften
boxed and packaged inside
a crafted image of love
i say to you this:
show up for us
as you most long to be
let us receive you
like a born-again-virgin
paint us your fantasy
of earnest perfection
we'll get it wrong
undoubtedly
so will you
but naming and claiming will be
the beginning of knowing
your pleasure is not to be feared
you are not weird for
wanting connection
you are sexy
you are not wrong for
wanting bodily belonging
you are ready
to be met in your aliveness
wet and desirous
or intimate quietness
you are ready
to be met
all the way
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