A new experience
Nov. 15th, 2003 04:57 amthat
of guilt
there is
as I type this
a beautiful and naked woman
in my bed
unconscious
with sleep and sex
and
I have never felt worse
well
maybe not never
but
still
there is guilt
weighing heavily upon my heart
and
I am simultaneously aware
and clueless
as to why
for many years
I have not really thought about sex
if I was attracted
and it happened
I was content
accepting
but tonight is different
I slept with a woman
who however beautiful she may be
was
not
what I desire
and it tears me apart
in many ways
I excused my rampant behaviour
in
that excuse of knowing
what I wanted
was not there
was not available
I allowed myself those masculine excesses
that which our culture allows me
to be frivolous and callous
with our affections
and I was content in such
a holding pattern
meaningless sex
with meaningless women
a meaningless period of life
waiting
for something more
but now
however unsure I may be
of any specific relationship
or of any specific woman
I am quite sure
that the sort of woman
which I desire
which I need
exists
and that
is a curse unto itself
for now
the casual beauties
with which I occupy myself
only make me feel worse
before
while there was a doubt
I could convince myself
that maybe just maybe
these women
of beauty
but lacking any remarkable intelligence
were the best I could do
that there was no better
to come in my life
I arrived at a point
where I was ready
nearly willing to accept the woman
who would be
but an arm piece to me
as
I
in my most cynical state
believed I would find no better
now
all of that has had
the shadow of doubt
cast upon it
the potential of so much more
has arisen like a malevolent ghost
and
for the first time in my life
I
feel dishonest when I sleep with a woman
and
I
do not like it at all
of guilt
there is
as I type this
a beautiful and naked woman
in my bed
unconscious
with sleep and sex
and
I have never felt worse
well
maybe not never
but
still
there is guilt
weighing heavily upon my heart
and
I am simultaneously aware
and clueless
as to why
for many years
I have not really thought about sex
if I was attracted
and it happened
I was content
accepting
but tonight is different
I slept with a woman
who however beautiful she may be
was
not
what I desire
and it tears me apart
in many ways
I excused my rampant behaviour
in
that excuse of knowing
what I wanted
was not there
was not available
I allowed myself those masculine excesses
that which our culture allows me
to be frivolous and callous
with our affections
and I was content in such
a holding pattern
meaningless sex
with meaningless women
a meaningless period of life
waiting
for something more
but now
however unsure I may be
of any specific relationship
or of any specific woman
I am quite sure
that the sort of woman
which I desire
which I need
exists
and that
is a curse unto itself
for now
the casual beauties
with which I occupy myself
only make me feel worse
before
while there was a doubt
I could convince myself
that maybe just maybe
these women
of beauty
but lacking any remarkable intelligence
were the best I could do
that there was no better
to come in my life
I arrived at a point
where I was ready
nearly willing to accept the woman
who would be
but an arm piece to me
as
I
in my most cynical state
believed I would find no better
now
all of that has had
the shadow of doubt
cast upon it
the potential of so much more
has arisen like a malevolent ghost
and
for the first time in my life
I
feel dishonest when I sleep with a woman
and
I
do not like it at all