Tuesday, July 5, 2022

Consent is Sexy

 

We Waltz around our words together

which is a familiar past time

ringing prominent in my hands.

Draping over my chest,

holding onto my dignity and 

carefully allowing a new chapter to

be created before me.

I think I sway and shuffle.

You... maybe a Salsa,

and we somehow meet in the middle on rhythm

for a moment until continuing

our own solo y sola.

This is something we speak not on,

it only lays at our feet to decide for itself

when to peak.

I wanna know what your skin feels like

without touching you.

I don't know what I am 

other than what I feel.

And who are you in this world?

You must exist beyond this realm

-you told me of the iridescence in your dreams.

How dessert fell right in front of you 

for one reason or another

and you were open to the taking.

Your nerves have exposed themselves.

We have been rearranged into a position

to ask for permission.

And yes, baby, we have the permission slip

right in my hand.

All you gotta do is grab it.

You will then have permission

to give me slow hands (if they're clean).

Let me feel your grown out hair on my stomach,

or your caress at my kneecap.

Stroke my toes how you wish

and play with my fuzz

that won't fit in a ponytail.

This moment hasn't happened.

These happenings are shy and stuffed

under our sleeves 

for no one to see until

the sleeves are not worn.



~Tina Meeks

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