HOW CAN I PRETEND

HOW CAN I PRETEND

That these feelings are not real?

This closeness, this desire

Right here before my eyes

Looking into your eyes

The answers are all there

A burning fire, burning so hot

Raging passions

Heightened by your touch

Oh such bodies rush so lush

Gently seeking, gently caressing

Gently engulfing to be engulfed

Consume to be consumed

Wrapped up in those arms of yours

Wanting more and more of this body

Softly whispering

I want you, need you

Still looking into each other’s eyes

Deep, deep, deep oh so deep

Flesh on flesh

Oh the body heat

© Teresa Joseph Franklin

23^rd July 2014

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ENTWINED

ENTWINED

We may seem worlds apart

We may seem to be opposites

But do they not say

“Opposites attract”

Yet I know what is inside of us

We have many public faces

But hey we know our real face

It lies deep inside

Loneliness

Loneness

A lousy isolation

Seclusion so private

That sets us apart

We have our reputations

These need to be met

High flyers

We laugh and joke

The odd poke

We do what we want

We go anywhere we want

But there is a longing need

We’ve been taken to the cleaners

We’ve been taken to be the fools

We’ve just been their tools

We’ve tried to laugh it off

Loads of scoff

Loads of shrug it off

But it damn well hurts deep inside

We’ve now become nobody’s fool

Yet there is a yearning

We work to fill the gaping hole

But yet we know why

The fun, frivolity

The Latte, Mocha, Cappuccino

Capriciousness

But deep, deep down inside we know why

The one night stands are not in my lands

Two lives explicitly entwined

It’s the warm embraces

It’s the feeling of being needed

It’s the pure fantasy to reality needed

It’s the feeling of drowning in pure ecstasy

Love without treason

Love without a reason

Two bodies entwined

Drinking up each other’s wines

Two bodies not wanting to let go

Two bodies hungry

Two people devouring each other

Well a girl can dream can’t she?

That someday it’ll be a maybe

© Teresa Joseph Franklin

20^th March 2015

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SUMMER WITH YOU

SUMMER WITH YOU

The summer love

The summer I loved you

It was so brief

Yet I was so happy

Happy to walk hand in hand

Walking in the soft sand

Paddling my feet

Skirt hitched up

But all you could do was watch

It was if you were afraid

Afraid of the freedom

Freedom to be yourself

A freedom beyond caring

Yet you knew this sand and sea

Is where I love to be!

It’s where I can be free

Free as the wind

Free as the birds in the sky

Yet you hold back!

What has happened to your inner child?

The one we all had as a child

The one who laughed and cried

Why oh why did you let yours die?

I hope that one day you’ll read this

In the hope that you’ll live a life so free

Not shackled by society

Not shackled by the responsibility

Go wading in the sea

Feel the breeze

Feel the sand between your toes

And let all the worry and woes

Go, go and go

Then maybe you will come back to me

And live that summer with such love

And a glow

© Teresa Joseph Franklin

29^th November 2014

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