First dates

or on finding Balance

Your perfect body moves quickly
Your perfect body moves slowly
The Beast needs to bite
The Friend to look in your eyes

Will the Friend find something
beyond your perfect body to hold?

I am sitting here
looking at them
beautiful and terrible
ten inches away

Will the Beast calm his urges
to be fed by your hips?

I am walking with you
discovering
observing your thoughts
intrigued fascinated
amazed by your life

Will They be able to hold hands?

T.C.

07/11/2015