Between The Sheets – Unglossed

Between the opposing sheets hard
     Lies a whole mess of wordy shards
Some pungent, some repugnant
    Some cloying, some buoying
Some boisterous, some vociferous
         Some malicious, Some sagacious
    Some pernicious, some capricious
Some reminisces, some winces
                      Some piercing, some ferocious
       Some precocious, some innocent
  Some gentle like mom’s mantle
Some hard like teacher’s stern ogle
Relations that boggle
Some curdle
Some inane
Some insane
Some shallow n vain
Some we dare disdain
Some we have to tolerate
Some help n hurt
Some confide n subvert
Some change over time
Some shifty sands
Some slippery eels
Some greasy wheels
Some weasels

We pick a few here n there
Mix match n ignore
Some reject or get rejected
Some deject some are cruel
Some we still care about n knowingly
Are glutton for their punishment
Masochistic- yet realistic
We are all slaves to our needs
Weaknesses, goals, aspirations
And striving respirators until
Expiration. release from
Self invited bondage
All residing between
Sheets
Silken
Tensile
Tough
Blood ties or not…
between the sheets
of life
in book of
lifespan
of self

Life thus endures, as we endeavor to endure it with grace…

and my voyage of self discovery is still on…

pictures from internet – disclaimer

Originally Published: May 23, 2009

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