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Why 'Outside the Gates'? There are many gates isolating people from each other. 'Gated communities' being the most obvious, where the affluent try to segregate themselves from the poor.

The most insidious though are the gates within our minds which separate us from, make us think we are different to, even better than the 'other'.

Yet we all experience the same emotions, feelings, wants and needs irrespective of gender, colour, race or creed.



Down Among the Minerals Print E-mail
Sunday, 21 January 2007
Down Among the Minerals


Even now
    I need to love.


Even now,
    having seen,
        been
        so many men
burying past loves in graves of self-esteem
    and prestige amongst the males.


Full grown adults these
    living the life of the boys,
        offering thorns from dead roses
            as sharp edged put downs;
    the weak excuses
    for fear an honest appraisal of care,
        and then sneer
    at the widowed tears of love's leaving.


I don't know about you,
    but even now
        I need to love,
to lay this weary, addled head
    between the firmness of your thighs
        down among the minerals
    and caress,
            taste
        the essence that makes
        for difference.
   




ⓒ  Les Skeates

      

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