Bringing The Storm Home

Passion as lust is so underrated.   It is bequeathed to youth, dismissed as elemental, in passing, as age progresses it is assumed dead on arrival. It's somehow taken as recreational, it is taken as something which is done - and done with. It is taken as an aberration if it floods you, you are a mendicant if you can control it, a vamp if you let it possess you, an offender if it affects every part of your life.   So much of passion is denigrated, even as we fall in lust before falling in love, even as we give in to it's call and it embellishes our commitment to the other, in untamed and undisguised ways. Love would be lesser for it. It's unpredictability is its source of raw charm.   And when we let it lead us into its dark caverns, we find life's curtains drawn out to the end, and the sun streaming in, playing with the sheets where you lie, playfully asking - now once more, with the sun on us?   If you liked this poem, consider listening to these other poems tenderly talking of the pleasures of love and love-making: <ul><li><a href='https://open.spotify.com/episode/1p809CJ1EFG1b3hy0BHPRr?si=b4NTRTIQRFm6cPeK4w_ZZQ&utm_source=whatsapp&dl_branch=1'>Making Love in a Cathedral on a Stormy Day</a></li> <li><a href='https://open.spotify.com/episode/5yRoXKrQ3fnL2aE1TvY1Ag?si=xhNwMYF5Q2Ce_qUX0B-Oeg&utm_source=whatsapp'>Fallen Flowers</a> </li> <li><a href='https://open.spotify.com/episode/5yP15W2U49f6I4VBiOjMpU?si=bBedWfu6SSmXrWMqakRVQA&utm_source=whatsapp&dl_branch=1'>Perils of Breakup Sex (or Why I Can't Keep My Legs Closed for You)</a></li> </ul> Find other magical things, like a lovely free chapbook of poems, and other resources <a href='https://linktr.ee/UncutPoetry'>here</a>.   Uncut Poetry has started a new Podcast called Red River Sessions (on <a href='https://open.spotify.com/show/6GjsHb89DFnn6qKQcs3Ybu?si=swMZ_-eXQ3mhaH-hp3HX0g&utm_source=whatsapp&dl_branch=1'>Spotify</a>, <a href='https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/uncut-poetry-presents-red-river-sessions/id1572804012'>iTunes</a>, Pocket Casts, etc), w