Poetic Post-Coital Gloom

The anxious night of wicked awareness is
hard-edged guarded in manic succession
unconstrained lust ascended of primeval
furnaces and guts hungering adrenalin
to light up darkness’s instantly
erect spit and invective
blood roaring aloft
a mayhem of bursting mood-madness
disintegrating star-burst fantasies
descending soft and trite
trading spaces making place
for fawning words flattering
placating words – words battering
within words loving words
words sung aloud words talking
as hands talk with clearer meaning
and less confused thought.

In dawn unspinning in feeble light’s
indecent withdrawal a coldness of
seeping chills creeping in
the gathering ills of a drear
and cheerless day beginning.
© I.D. Carswell 2006