The Owned Man

 

A poem for all those men whose beguiling beauties, rule their tightly controlled lives.

A recent film inspired the piece but maybe it's more closer to the divine truth of their existence. 

The film was The Graduate.

Such a classic.

Perhaps I should have titled it, Mrs. Robinson 🎩

Salute.

Title:

The Owned Man

(A lone voice whispers)

As she 

My sweet-sounding 

Goddess 

Who daily and especially at night

Who wantonly 

Without shame of fear 

Of retribution

Consumes my every 

Breathing vista's

With a sweet sounding 

Sensuously rapturous 

Soft 

Liquid like melody

Always proclaiming. 

It's you I just need

In light whispers 

Whilst

Forever caressing me

As her delicately toned red 

Fingers

Conduct a deliciously tender but firm 

Melodious 

Symphony 

With my quivering 

Sweat soaked skin

As her beloved treasured 

Lyrics sheet

Her dulcet tones 

Sometimes dominant 

But

Yet hypnotically 

Honeyed smooth and 

Lyrically euphonious

Always hold me in 

A subtle but forceful trance 

Of her own cunning doing

At the same time.

Some think I'm 

Blessed to lay and 

Walk beside such a 

Striking beauty

Gian Lorenzo Bernini 

Would have been proud 

To sculpt

But I'm 

Simply forever 

Dammed

For

Her low easily seductive 

Mellifluous voice

Always sends me

Tumbling

Forever fumbling 

Down a deep tunnel

Created and made 

For Loves deluded 

Lost souls to 

Wallow in

Until 

Oblivion 

And we hold our arms wide open and admit in front of the Almighty

We just loved living in

Sin.

Copyright John Duffy 

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