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“
Cleaned
Sexuality: prime machine
Nature takes its course,
of course,
brought in fierce whipping winds
of change in my adolescent brain.
Confusion reigns.
Shame gains
in ascendant pain
stabbing stains and guilty rains
showing strain in each refrain
in my adolescent brain.
Later years and mixed up fears
Bring tears, and shear
away a soul. Morality is in arrears.
Then she...
...what? Brought new lens new angle new sight?
An old machine in a bright new light?
The sweet light shaft she lightly cast
lifts joy and redeems the gleam;
rust of shame and guilt is cleaned
until shine! Shine! Shine! It seems
a dream!
To feel the machine so clean! (5.00 / 1 vote)
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