Wasted Instincts Poem by Susan Ash

Wasted Instincts



Having found myself
Do I now have to shut
Myself away again?
Having learnt to love myself
Must I now return to
Self loathing and denial

Having broken free from
The closed opinions of others
I now find myself wondering
Have I just been deluding myself?
Maybe I am one alone in
A world that pretends
To be knowledgeable.

I have always known
What others have to
Learn from another.
Instinctive carnal knowledge.
Simultaneously desired and feared
I have endured the indignities of
Hypocritical moralities.

What I had come to see
As a gift to now seems that
It may be a curse after all
Living in a world where too few
Speak my language
Of physical love.
Is there to be no partner
Able to mirror my passion?

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Rajaram Ramachandran 15 April 2007

Surely, a day will come to answer the last two lines.

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