Love's Tide

Two days and half a night
Yes, Two days and half a night
Is all it takes to love a woman

The first is the best, when
Both of you will look, crave
Peep in each other’s eyes
Desolate as caves, liquid
And exchange a moment of
Eternity, an obscene infinity
You can call your own, and feel
The sweltering sun wetting
Your skin, hers, glistening with lust
And think of the next days
When you shall lie, coiled up
Admiring her, she you
And share yet another endless
Shameless moment of lust
And you try, fail, try
To act bold, unabashed, macho
And fumble, as she lights
The post coital fags
And you draw in, exhale
She in smoke, clearing the air
And you peep, for one last look
At her lovely, curvaceous breasts
One last look at her liquid eyes
And you take
A moment of obscenity
In your stride


The first is indeed the best

The rest doesn’t count

Two days and half a night
Yes, two days and half a night
Is all it takes to love a woman

Inspired by Kamala Das (The Looking Glass)