This week’s task is to share a poem, drawing, story, photo, sculpture, etc that you’ve put your soul into creating. Something that touches on the deepest most vulnerable parts of yourself. Something raw and exposing.
This work contains: Adult Content
Fumble
Fumble
Fart around
Fail.
Again I lie back
My lover takes my head
Kisses me with understanding.
‘Its ok,’ she says
‘You are getting older
This happens.’
The next day I write:
My dick has dementia
I’m sure it has.
Last night I met this hot lady
She took her home to her place,
Got everything in place
Soft lights, cushions, music just so
A launch pad into all things possible.
We engage, go like the clappers
Everything working like a champion.
She wants more attention
I comply, she utters satisfaction.
Meanwhile my dick thinks
‘That bastards forgotten me
That’s it I’m going home.’
What he doesn’t do is tell my brain.
Brain thinks a temporary hiatus
No worries all good.
‘Take me baby,’ she says
‘Take me now.’
Nothing.
Like a spoilt child
Pretending disinterest
Despite all immediate attention
It’s gone off to sulk.
I am left looking a real incompetent.
I say to it, what’s going on?
Beautiful woman
Wants me now
Where are you?
Its silence is deafening.
My night a complete disaster.
I go home
Despondent
Broken
See an add,
Can’t fail blue pills
The answer to my prayers.
Trouble is can’t remember where she lives.
She laughs, she hugs me
You could be so down but you aren’t.
There has to be a funny side I say.
What can do?
The pills?
Work a treat.
We lie together
She asks if I’ll publish my poem.
My smile says it all.
Written for: https://mindlovemiserysmenagerie.wordpress.com/2015/06/07/writing-prompt-110-meraki/
Morpethroad 
In the end, the smile really does say it all 😉
Thank you C.C. Appreciate you stopping by…
Mind and body don’t always connect – it’s like that for us all. We women are simply luckier since our failings are somewhat less … pointed, shall I say?
Braggard!!…..But I am sure I saw there was a pill for ladies too? Then again young women such as you would never have this issue…..at least I hope not…..
You’re such a charmer, my dear. 😉
lol…..think what I’d be like if the opposite applied….hope your weekend was a good one Linda….I did smile at the lack of comments on my SOC this week…..maybe they didn’t think I was being serious…thanks as always for stopping by…
It’s a touchy subject… 😛
Hope you had a wonderful weekend too!
I’m sorry, I smiled my way through. I didn’t show sympathy for your “loss.”
Its no laughing matter I can tell you no matter how funny you might think…..thankfully a ‘cure’ has been found….
Yes, I’ve heard about those little blue pills. Glad your story has a happy ending! You didn’t leave the reader hanging.
No I made it a very uplifting ending….can I expect a similar poem from you when you try those ‘pink’ pills?
I would hope so! Otherwise, I’d ask for a full refund.
I would expect so.
Oh, and a ps: In the states, the FDA has approved a similar pill for women. I wonder if it will be pink?
If only we could coordinate our brains and fickle body parts. Oh well, no shame in getting a little help from our friends…
That’s what I think Mandy. Thanks so much for stopping by…..
I wrote one on this subject but was afraid it would embarrass a special someone so I’ve refrained but here is part of it in answer to your poem:
“You have your
little blue pills- I have my bottle of silk
what does it matter if we need a little help?
Doesn’t it matter that I love you still,
love you in a thousand better ways
than when we were kids?”
You were brave to address a very common problem.
Thank you Debi I actually wrote that poem about two years ago and this prompt seemed the place to post it in…..
I also meant to say you sum up the issue so very well in the end the person who loves us does so as you say in a thousand better ways.
This is very honest Michael I do like the exchange at the end when you decide to publish the poem. I take birth control for health reasons not pregnancy prevention and it has really reduced my sex drive which is a normal side effect but not a welcome one.
Thanks Yves, yes I understand that some meds are to keep us well but do take things from us….have a good week
Frankly – well – frank. But as usual Michael – you manage to see and find a ray or 3 of sunshine in all matters grey – turning to shades of blue. 😉
On a serious note, bold of you to consider addressing the issue so publicly – because the truth of the matter is – it’s a sign of a problem – one that may have serious consequences – in other moments – simply less so – and for as “sexually” aware and all the hyperbole that surrounds all that we see and face every day in life – literally sex or sexual innuendo sells most everything – we subliminally absorb and hold ourselves up to fairytale standards. Which is ridiculous. So, if help is needed – so what? Why deny the pleasures in life based on a hard-wiring mishap that may happen from time to time!
And it does happen to women – in different ways – so, men aren’t alone. It’s just either we make fun of it to ease the social stigma – hence the absolutely ridiculous commercials – or we shuffle our feet and deny it. Absurd.
Exactly MJ, its like anything that goes awry in life you owe it to yourself to address what ever issues your body is facing. There’s a pill for most things why not use one to enhance your sexual life when in fact it is a major driving force in your life.
Aptly put 🙂
Quite brave of you, Michael for addressing this issue. I have zero sex drive from being on antidepressants and anti-psychotics for so long. If this had happened in my 30s I would have gone, well.. out of my mind.. over it. But now, it really doesn’t bother me much anymore. Thanks for sharing something so intimate 🙂
Thank you Lori, not sure if I should feel sorry for you having no sex drive these days, though you say it doesn’t bother you now…..it doesn’t go away…thankfully….