Time Divided

5 days on,
2 days off
alternating
every other week

Split custody
isn't the easiest,
but I would never complain

That bond is the most integral
and I divide my life
based on those responsibilities

It is always strange
once I return to the quiet of house
once again,

there is a fusion of sadness
and relief

And sometimes the best tonic
once I am alone again
is a healthy escape
into those imaginative worlds
engaging in those devious thoughts
of bodies and release

A few days off,
to be able to get off

Sometimes a visitor
would help,
but that would require
the calendar of openings
and many still need
that all or nothing approach

But it isn't all bad,
because I have you
to tease me with words
and edge me straight again

to close my eyes
and know
we share similar obsessions
and you don't mind
playing in the possibilities
of such pleasures