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Reality is Touch 

Writer's picture: Paul D. WilkePaul D. Wilke

In Bed, The Kiss by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1892

 

Let’s dance to love’s melody before we forget the rhythm. 

Let’s worship Fiery Eros on that soft and horizontal altar.

Let’s embrace the most naked Truth of them all, 

the most HUMAN of them all!

Reality 

  is 

  touch.

Now close your eyes and remember

the warmth of loving caresses,

the sweet taste of heaven on your lips,

the scent of desire burning in the darkness,  

the sacred fusion as two melt into one.

This is what matters,

if anything does.

Sight and sound alone are porn, 

servants of greedy and glowing gods,

 ruling in this Land of Lotus Eaters, 

in this Cave of Shadows,

in these dark rooms

where so many

sit all 

alone.

But as long as we dance,

you and I,

in those lingering hours of the night,

and revere the fiery god 

of flesh 

and touch 

and passion

and tenderness,

as long as we keep the faith,

and spurn those glowing gods

who offer only loneliness and despair,

then there’s still hope.

There must be!

So let this be my axiom!

Let this be your vow!

Let this be our mantra!

Reality 

is 

touch.


 

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PDW

Dry Grove, Illinois

January 2025


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