What Was I Thinking? (2008) Poem by David Joel Rodriguez

Walking to my room, stumbling, thinking to myself
In the dark, turn on the light with a flick of a switch...

'But then there was this drawing, a large canvas
You and I created an art with our own slippery bodies
Undressing each other discussing our favorite color
Slowly discovered ourselves tumbling on the sheet
Naked, rubbing ourselves with no idea how to begin
Making unique bold lines and body splashes of lust
'We weren't planning on drawing what we were thinking'
We painted our loves movement around each other
Our form displayed by our hearts desired colors'

Things have been different since the day we met
'You taste smoother than the body of my favorite wine'
Just when I thought only natures rain could get me wet
Together we were unseparable living in divine time

Remembered a day on the road heading for romance
'Watch for Curves' was read up ahead on a sign
Immediately you were visualized in the distance
Oh what a thought that it began to ravage my mind

'Thinking of you in every way possible made me smile
I searched around the room for a photo hopelessly flying..
But then suddenly I detected a spider speeding across the tile
Remembered a comment saying you felt something crawling
I said at the time, 'I wouldn't mind crawling all over you...'

This New Year took me by surprise of course, alone again
But you were the bubbles, the sparkles in my champagne
A giggled thought when you'd mention 'forbidden garden'
Thinking aloud, sweating the pain, I'm lost, can't explain
In the end, your eyes rolled with a tisk as I crawled for you...

Yea.. well, those were the days, if there were any that is
I forgot what I came to my room for after those thoughts'

But with a flick of a switch, it turned me on to something
And just like that, dwelling the past, left me with nothing