Neville

Afterwards

Afterwards

 

When appetites

had truly fled and all their needs

were truly met

She turned to face that now famous

high backed leather chair

Where lust has since been

shed and rid and slaked

So many times

Though now redundant

Yet in the here and now

mid such confounding places

She is again the victim of her own

religious guilt…..

 

For in that very moment when

she arched her back and

urged him crash and then cascade 

like some great ocean beast or wave

upon her swollen breasts

and drown or suffocate around him

She paused to hesitate

but only briefly mind

Then shivering he coaxed

a free arm round her waist

and pulled her closer in…..

 

Twas then she stretched

as both palms cupped her breasts

beneath behind and beside him

Much like he might have once

cupped a fallen plover or a sparrow

A tender and protective love

With no tomorrows

Then hands clenched tight about her head

Sucking air and biting lip

Twas then she died a little bit

Contented…..