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LEFT BY OUR LOVE

I'm stripping our bed,
just-showered, naked,  
while you make your way  
into working day.  
 
Blanket I pull off,  
then top sheet I doff,  
sweep both to the floor  
like a matador.  
 
Undersheet's ruffled,  
where bodies tussled.  
I stop to reflect,  
memory's effect.  
  
On sheet, white as dove,  
stain, left by our love,  
remains in the day  
to be washed away.  
   
I smile with a glow,  
that our overflow  
has left evidence  
to sight and smell sense.  
   
At that poignant smell,  
I'm starting to well  
up down in my south.  
I cup nether mouth.  
   
Through fingers I drip  
at thoughts of your tip  
piercing my divide
as I got astride.  
   
A girl's gotta do  
what she's gotta do....
I yank off the sheet,  
it hangs to my feet,  
pooling on the floor,  
corner clutched to core.  
   
The seeping subsides  
like the ebbing tides.  
After reverie,  
sheet's in day's laundry.  
   
I put a fresh sheet  
on mattress complete,  
knowing it we'll stain  
when love's made again.  
   
 
Written by Solomon_Song
Published | Edited 26th Jan 2021
Author's Note
inspired by Anders Zorn painting 'In The Bedroom' (shown). Poem thought up to caption the picture.
All writing remains the property of the author. Don't use it for any purpose without their permission.
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