Reflections of an Older Woman

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Living in the shadow of your amazing love

is like being wrapped in a tightly wound blanket

that keeps me safe.

I need to escape, to break out of

the comfortable and secure bindings,

to be my own conductor and hear my own music.

I need space to see how high I can fly, soaring

alone or with you, creating my own safety net,

should I decide to have one.

I want to take my bucket list and throw it to the wind

and then ride on the remnants teaming down, read racy

books and watch sexy movies.

I want to drink delicious wine in the street cafés

of Paris with you in the morning sun and care not

that it is still morning.

I want to make love to you under the stars or in the

bright sunshine on a silky beach and not care if anyone

knows we are there.

to make every minute count,

to explore, to be wanton, to seek only pleasure,

to top every experience with the next.

I want to be selfish, to understand all that is me, as a woman,

as a person, as a creator of life, as a partner, as a friend

and as a lover.

I want to learn new ways of expressing my love

for you by knowing what gives me pleasure,

what satisfies my soul, where my dreams are alive.

I want to please you and pleasure you in the way that makes

you complete, intimately and in every way that matters to us.

This time is my time and your time and our time.

I want my toes to curl when I look at you as they did so many

years ago. I want us to melt away in each other’s arms as we

explore our intimate and passionate selves.

I want to touch you in those places we no longer talk about,

not caring that our bodies are now a bit looser and ‘differently beautiful.’

I want to savour that beauty.

Let’s feed our passions and yearnings. Let’s be wild,

and let’s give them something

to talk about!

By Elizabeth Sams

From: Canada

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