FabSwingers.com: heppy (62) & heart (60) , Couple in orgyton, British Columbia, UK

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How do they do it, the ones who make love

without love?

Beautiful as dancers,

gliding over each other like ice-skaters

over the ice,

fingers hooked inside each other's bodies,

faces red as steak, wine,

wet as the children at birth whose mothers are going to give them away.

How do they come to the

come to the come to the God come to the still waters,

and not love

the one who came there with them,

light rising slowly as steam off their joined

skin?

These are the true religious,

the purists, the pros,the ones who will not accept a false Messiah,

love the priest instead of the God.

They do not mistake the lover for their own pleasure,

they are like great runners:

they know they are alone with the road surface, the cold, the wind,

the fit of their shoes, their over-all cardio-

vascular health- just factors,

like the partner in the bed,and not the truth, which is the single body alone in the universe

against its own best time.

(Sex Without Love, a poem by Sharon Olds)

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