Once upon a time, in a place called Venustus a raw newb caught my eye I wonder what it was about her that made me want to try
The quiet one kneeling on the rug playing with her Pegs quite unlike the others less submissive, yet somehow more so in ways that I couldn't see at the time
She chides me for my lack of attention shouldn't it be the other way round? should she not be the one attending to me? yet somehow I can't make that demand can't bring myself to issue the command can't take the risk she'll call my bluff begin to realise I can't get enough
I begin to doubt my Dominance as we get closer there's something else Incredible as it seems, I feel her body close to mine her warmth come through and then she asks "do you feel it too?"
And I do feel it I feel you beside me, within me I feel that for us it has always been this way that I've always known you and you feel that way too
Then everything became simple and yet more complicated Now I had no choice but to face myself to admit the thing I'd tried to hide because love demands honesty to be honest with you I had to be honest with me
Even though I had no doubt still I needed space to work it out a week or two should be enough the next three months were really tough
Cynthia Pauline Jones, March 2013
This poem is the first part in my 'After Midnight Suite'. It deals with the period from my first meeting, in early 2009, in a virtual world, with the person who would become my Muse, my inspiration, my spur to make significant changes in my life; to the point about a year later, when I took a period of absence from that virtual environment and the growing relationship, in order to mentally prepare myself for the changes I had realised I needed to make... this was the first part written, many months before the date shown (which is the completion date for the suite as a whole).