Bodies Are Like Poems / Original Poetry

in #poetry7 years ago

The Skin of Things

It should seem odd
to buy and sell flesh
for who can measure love or pain

Yet you can get just anything
for a bargain in the city -
quick fixes and hired company

What you don’t bargain for
is the heartache, indigestion
or the hunger shortly after

The price of bloated pleasures
is delivered in installments
long after unwrapping a stranger

You see, there’s nothing casual
about intimacy, or passing
through a temple without bowing

Bodies are like poems that way
only a fraction of their power
resides in the skin of things.

© Yahia Lababidi

(Images: Pixabay)

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Beautiful , and great photos to accompany

Glad you enjoyed it, @eazyh. Images can, sometimes, fill in the blanks of a poem and amplify it.

You have such an insightful, fascinating eye and voice. Keep it up!

Bless your heart; thanks, for hearing. We are more than just our bodies 🙏🏼

Your poems are so cool

Thanks, for your continued attention.

masha allah awesome poem brother

Bless you, for hearing it with your heart.

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