Katy Gray
Untitled
He touches.
I tense,
a touch
not tender,
a fumble,
a grope
my body needs
to repulse
but cannot.
A hulk
of hot flesh
crushes my body
like a paperweight.
I stiffen,
and a band of steel
tightens around me.
A shield.
My hand strokes
the damp back
to hasten the act.
Drops of sweat
from the heaving chest
moisten my hair
and face.
I feel the weight,
not the penis.
Mercifully
in seconds
it is over.
I dreamed,
as a young girl,
of making love.
I thought
of a warm mouth,
hungry but tender,
searching,
delighting
every corner of me.
I know another man,
not sexually,
I know only his eyes
and delight in them.
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