You cannot shame my desire
For it was there in your beginnings
Forming your flesh
Your parents touched
Yearned to be touched
And from their seeded success
You flew forth
Like a foaming seashell
Aphrodite sprang from their well

You cannot shame his desire
For though no seed may form new life
New love will still inspire
Male fingers fondling
Male lips caressing and expressing
The most natural of tendencies
While some shout indecency
I sigh with the beauty of love and lust
The local pride of human evolution
One ****** upon the next

You cannot shame her desire
Though soft or hard
Feminine or masculine
Butch or diva
There is no need to classify
Her desire is not a matter of wrong or right
But of desire

And for all those outside
Or somewhere in-between
These three things
Those who sit still circling
Jittery with uncertainty
Desiring or not desiring
You cannot shame them

For it is all so beautifully complicated