When I last tasted her,
her lips were still
a mysterious heavy.
A glossed *** shine
and her proud mother's grin
held me helpless-
a lioness jawing her cub.
A cowardly actor I was,
depicting a breathful, firm
man bored and unmoved
by this no more than textbook
show of affection. No.
She's mastered that text book and,
by chance, written a few of her own.
My theatrical mask was shattered fast
by the calculated clumsiness of her
apricot kiss,
revealing my boyish face
as the answer to the question,
who now is her masked man?
And still,
being a scientist not a philosopher
She unearths more enigmas than
solutions leaving her colleagues
balanced on the fence, waiting
in merciless anticipation for her
theories to be proven.
But the essence of a theory
is that it's unprovable.
I, being human, need only
answers to questions,
her questions
which she insists I answer.
For she knows I will always answer them for her.
She, also being human,
needs nothing else from me.
So she walks away.
the true story of a brief yet intoxicating encounter with an ex-lover