You can be friends,
initially,
and laugh and play,
and share.
Secret thoughts,
shameful thoughts,
the past, the future,
feelings.

You can become best friends
and know the depths
and pains
and hopes
and lies you'd say
to others

And then, you could, possibly
become aware
of each others nakedness
and taste each other
and touch each other
listen to music in total darkness
while marking the skin
with teeth
and lips
and nails
and breathe on each other
tickle, massage, lie
(on each other)
(to each other)
and rub your noses
instead of kissing
and sleep together
while still doing all the previous things
and it can be a secret
or not

and then it can be over
and mean nothing at all

words could be banned
feelings be purged
and things can change dramatically
so much
that one can live in the past
while the other has moved on
so fast
and the intimacy can linger still
but not like before
unlike some feelings, that can,
unfortunately,
linger unchanged for...
so very long

And I'm an anarchist
and an atheist
but God, to own would be a bliss
dear God, freedom has a cost.
even in love