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Still the Same Man In My Own Right

I caressed your body all along the day,
Planted my affection on your lips
Surely it will stay there forever.
Hope, will stay there forever.
I was a man of great dreams and desires

I never treated you a subordinate eve
What I gave you was privileged pleasure
I never gave you the pain of childbirth 
It was I who ate the forbidden fruit of Eden.
Committing adultery in my old age.
I was a man of great dreams and desires.

Now that you have left me for reason,
I have unlearnt to find safe line
Between teasing and pleasing you.
I am yet to learn the difference
Between bare-breasts & fashionable breasts.
I am still the same man in my own right 

I have crossed to the other side
And I can’t ever go back.
I am still the same man in my own right

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September 1, 2014
Form: Free Verse
Dr. Ram Mehta
Contest: When Doing Wrong feels So Right by Jared Pickett

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Andrea Dietrich

Date: 9/1/2014 4:12:00 PM

gosh, I was thinking maybe this was for the confessions contest. Other poems of yours I have read, led me to believe you are now divorced? Is that true? I enjoyed the sincerity of this one.

Dr.Ram Mehta
Date: 9/2/2014 4:46:00 AM