Why Don‘t You Make Love to Me Anymore?

"There's so much I can give you yet,

for I'm a poem you left three-fourths of the way,

I promise I still have a syntax in bed,

which might surprise the metaphor in you."

 

What's love if there is no mischief in it? What's love of it doesn't become lazy sometimes and has to be given a jolt!

 

In the infinite comfort of being the cynosure of one true love, also lies the seeds of it being taken for granted. As our soul preens in its attention, it also stretches like happy cat, and settles into the comfortable nook of warm laziness.

 

And things slip. Dates are forgotten, attention wavers, things are forgotten to be told. Every morning you reach for the phone as soon as you awaken, rather than that warm body sleeping beside you. And you stop making love.

 

And in that one silly aberration, slips away the connect which enjoins two people into something more infinite, where 'carnal' is spelt as 'constant'  and 'lusting' as 'lasting'.

 

All it requires is a nudge, often a metaphysical elbow in the ribs, and sometimes a literal kick in the pants, to bring each other back to the primal feeling - that strange world which only love provides - when the world gives you everything you've ever wanted, but there's just not enough of it.

 

If you liked this poem, consider listening to these other poems which talk of reclamation and right -

• Perils of Breakup Sex (or Why I Can't Keep My Legs Closed for You?
• Bringing the Storm Home
• Making Love in a Cathedral on a Rainy day

Find other magical things, like a lovely free chapbook of poems, and other resources here.

 

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I am Sunil Bhandari.

 

I am a poet based out of India. My book of poetry 'Of Love and Other Abandonments' was an Amazon bestseller. My second book is 'Of Journeys & Other Ways to Get Lost'. Both are available on Amazon.

Follow me on Instagram at @sunilgivesup.

Get in touch with me on uncutpoetrynow@gmail.com

 

The details of the music used in this episode are as follows -

Warm Sunset by MusicLFiles
Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/8070-warm-sunset
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license