A Woman's Desire

~~~8/28/14

A woman's desire

Is a cave at nighttime

Vast and cruel and strong

It is the luminous silkworms

Hanging from the ceilings and the walls

That drip water

Like a woman's desire drips love.

A woman's desire 

Is an oasis at daybreak

Warm and protective and intense

It is the blazing fireflies

That surround a stream

That flows precisely

As a woman's desire flows.

A woman's desire holds its breath

As it soaks in the object of its infatuation

And, like a man's desire,

It sighs with every injection

Of its elusive drug.