Consensuality
(for Heidi and Pierre)
[ To give oneself completely is to cede control
To someone else – whom we entrust implicitly
With its safe keeping in love’s tender liberty –
Of self-possession’s pride in body, mind and soul. ]
I licence you, my darling, to explore
My private territory; all its groves,
Valleys and hills – lush, deep or high – its caves
And secret places. These shall be as your
Own Paradisal park where you may delve
For any treasures which you hope to find
To satisfy your body or your mind.
From you I’ll not reserve to my sole self
One single portion where you may not go;
Nor interdict whatever you might choose
In furtherance of your desires. I’ll lose
Self-inhibitions so that you can know
How limitless is love’s intent to please
Your every wish. I’ll willingly disclose,
For your delight, each thing which you suppose
Could satisfy your interests’ degrees.
All that I ask in recompense, my love,
Is that same freedom for myself to play
In your own properties, by night or day,
As fancy or desire may prompt my move.
I’d use such liberty, once granted, to
Discover whatsoever happiness
Can be revealed through tender lustiness
For your sole satisfaction. Let me do
What pleases me the most and you will learn
Sensations that must conjure thrilled surprise,
Through ravished senses, to your startled eyes!.
You need not harbour care’s smallest concern
That my activities could ever be
Other than for your vantage, to locate
As many proofs as possible which state
We are each other’s, indissolubly.
Let us agree it!. There need be no shame
In demonstrating love is physical:
For doing what is only natural
There is no censure, nor should there be blame..
Let us explore each other without fear,
Delighting in those fresh discoveries
New-shared, of sense or sensibilities,
That might sustain us year on passing year.
And when volcanic passions’ torrents still
In minds and flesh, let us enjoy our rest
With mingled breaths and sated bodies tressed
In intimate felicity, until
Desire once more ignites our energies
To practice what experience has learned
Consensually; what our shared love has earned
Invested in renewed complicities!.
