leather and bright steel






I have given up

soft 		safe 		shared 	sheets

	warm comfort of skin pressed against
				skin
And wandered on 	without
		cold comfort
	to a lonelier 	darker
		silent spot

memories press 		like
	throbbing members
		 my past 	once did
muscles remember motions
				once made
	 coolness of
leather and bright steel

I have given up
		cold 	   comfort 	    caress

nothing