Bringing The Storm Home

2021-07-31

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 c...

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:

Making Love in a Cathedral on a Stormy Day
Fallen Flowers
Perils of Breakup Sex (or Why I Can't Keep My Legs Closed for You)

Find other magical things, like a lovely free chapbook of poems, and other resources here.

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I am Sunil Bhandari.

I am a poet based out of India. My book of poetry 'Of Love and Other Abandonments' was an Amazon bestseller. My second book is 'Of Journeys & Other Ways to Get Lost'. Both are available on Amazon.

Follow me on Instagram at @sunilgivesup.

Get in touch with me on uncutpoetrynow@gmail.com

The details of the music used in this episode are as follows -

Inspiring Teaser by Rafael Krux
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License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Rise Of The Heroes by Sascha Ende®
Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/513-rise-of-the-heroes
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