A fleeting annihilation in lust; cheating is violation of trust… cheating is hurtful and cheating is slighting… cheating is nothing that I find exciting.
What I find enthralling which some find confusing and may seem appalling but really is choosing to probe my identity satisfy wondering disrobe obscenity nullify suffering to simulate danger emulate fantasy to stimulate strangers and affirm our humanity.
And I know it’s perplexing; I’m so complicated… and I’m far from perfecting what we’ve consummated… but the point is just this: no more unfaithfulness… I want to persist but not with such painfulness… inverting portrayal underscored with disgust… reverse of betrayal: exploring of trust.
One year ago tonight you whispered into my unhearing ears
with the flick of your tongue across my lover’s desperate flesh
over oceans of thought, fear and lust you joined that which was mine while never knowing or desiring my anatomy.
You, who knew not to be yourself except reflected in strange foreign eyes which we have separately drowned in, we have shared that beautiful body.
I am nothing to you but an invisible partner who plagues not your existence, a ghost that is haunted by tiny little deaths which interred you both on sweet Budapest fabrics to the strains of Porgy and Bess.
You were musical phrases that created a distinct melody of an already exotic piece, a hunger I may yet understand but will never truly experience.
That night I was lost in your tonal pattern, deafened by an overwhelming silence which inspired want and hatred, pity and indifference, a longing that may never be satiated.
I say “your” though the stress was not singular – it was a harmony that brought me to tears, tore at my soul & ripped me apart, boiling me down to my essence.
You were a crucible by which all fear was melted away, an intersection in which, by way of paradox, he and I were joined in honest surrender, a yielding so keen that it’s wounding pleasure healed the breach, sealed the rift, and eased the strain until nothing could keep us apart.