Emma McGordon
The Told Us Not To Talk Of It
This thing,
this unspeakable truth,
this hidden promise
of adulthood and lost innocence.
This jealousy, this envy
and hatred.
This dragon diver fantasy toucher
and pleasure deliverer.
This secret,
this unzipped fly,
this displayed beast
this twitch and blood bound
highway, escaped convict,
rampaging lunatic..
This act unspeakable in my
church.
This God-given creating machine,
love maker, heart breaker,
switch blade sorcerer,
unnameable son of...
This ecstasy injector,
this hardness of overcoming,
bed sheet and linen leaf and
cool forests and dark whispers
in sweat swept ears.
This ownership,
this lease of space,
tenant in my room and
lodger in my flesh,
this kingdom come in pleasuredom.
This rapist,
this child abuser,
this anger and frustration,
hymen slicer of virgins,
this polarisation of species.
This man decider.
This shower room competitor
of shame and glory.
This tool of trembling veins
and bursting river banks.
This erotic exciter,
this enigma,
this signature on an unseen
document.
This disease spreader,
and buttered knife,
this beauty of entire mystery,
glorification and pride.
This naked statue in a town square,
this whole contradiction of a man
in the bushes with a raincoat.
Wee Willy Winkie only wears a
night-gown.
Bare with me, while I kneel
to this radical beauty.
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