I'm grateful for boundaries

walking the tightrope

of satisfaction & wanting more

mastery & frustration

dynamic demarcations

of yes's and no's

a perennial perhaps

curious tongue

savouring umami of unknowns

bittersweet defeats

salty surrender

souring sympathies

spicy speculations

to feel what's alive in the other

gracious respect with their no's

thankfully taking what is given

in fullness of desire

the taker devours for their pleasure

the taken delights in equal measure

utmost joy

to penetrate

be penetrated

seen like never before

a becoming as one walks the line

proleptic reasoning

an earnest enquiry

amidst paucity of light

feeling muddling through

the one who wants

changes the wants one wants

as one gropes in the darkness

of having that which vaguely

draws out one's self

beyond one's shrinking skin

to emerge different

symbol emulated by its referent

boisterous bowers built

to please her satin passerine

yearning to be chosen

be Iet in through her barricades

allowed to lift the Empress's brocade

the greatest reward

for freedom to fail

repeatedly time after time

wrestled down by that which

is always greater

one becomes stronger

better wiser

to move through the immovable

beyond logic

boundaries bend to the beholden.