If You Ask

If you ask, “Do you want to?”

And add, “Right now, let’s go.”

I may say, “No.

Can we share a table first?”

‘Cos even a good fuck,
Is better when I know you enough to care,
If only for those few hours we’re there,
Skin to skin
Until the sun,
Has risen,

Or set

So when I touch your body,
And feel gooseflesh,
I know a little of you behind that bold want in your eyes
As I dip my lips between your thighs
As your breath is parted from you in gasps
As I hold you down and turn you over
Pull you to the edge of the bed,
And take more laps

So I can feel more than your body surge under my palm
When you come.

‘Cos even while fucking
That we are more than bodies sliding against one another,

Is clear

And maybe sex doesn’t always mean forever,
But it should feel like forever,

At least for the time we’re here.