And Called It Love

Sex —

Attraction
Consummation
Parting — and then again
Attraction, consummation
Parting — and then again
Attraction
Consummation

Just like hunger

Is attraction ever not
Between —
Two distinct and separate entities
Where one or both
Experience a longing, absence, lack —
Incompleteness, asymmetry —
And a drive
To satisfy, satiate, fulfil, complete
And complement —
Through another entity
A distinct object —
That lack

To experience a dream
Of symmetry, of fulfilment

Where but in the mind and body
Must this lack reside —
If awareness lacks nothing
Needs nothing —
Neither satiated nor starved

Who or what, then, starves

Must it not be —
If body and mind are but appearance —
Awareness itself
Starved for appearance
To appear

Did God create the world
Out of love — his fullness —
Or loneliness — his emptiness

If neither —
Then perhaps
God did not create the world at all
Perhaps there’s no world —
No attraction
No man nor woman
No hunger or satiety
And no sex

And if there’s not —
Then who or what
Is sitting here
Reading, writing
And turned on

It can’t be me — for there’s no me
It can’t be God —
For he doesn’t have sex
Doesn’t beget nor is begotten

What’s left to play the game then
A dream character

A dream character
But who’s being turned on by the dream —
Just the dream character — that does not exist —
Or the dreamer himself

However it’s seen
Whichever way it’s cut —
Someone’s wanting —
If there’s anything at all

Must it not be
That God made the world
Out of loneliness
And called it love