If It Didn't Suck....

Some time ago
the sweet mystery of sex
seemed to be an unspoken promise
of transcendence
into adulthood.
While it was that
& infinitely more
knowing pleasure’s secrets
for even the first time,
or the first time it was done right,
hardly seems worth
Innocence’s death
& realizing that some promises
need to be uttered, brought out into the open
or even broken….

Sex’s sweet mysteries
were empty calories
half truths
dreams unrealized.

When all we had was its wonder
its secrets to discover
only then was it as wondrous as it can be
could ever be
Now its made slaves of us all
& all but our lives are sometimes sacrificed
to is almighty power
for a chance to experience what it was like
what it once was
when there was mystery
and a promise…..