This piece is a piece written as a revisit to a writing exercise I did at university and is, in some sense, a response to that very poem (found here). The exercise was to listen to a song piece and use that to drive your work. I chose Ludovico Einaudi’s Save the Artic and so have returned to that piece now.
The result from returning to this exercise whilst thinking of the original poem I wrote is more provocative than many things I have posted and, whilst most of my content on here is generally filled with adult themes, this piece is significantly more blatent. With that in mind, please only read on if you are happy to read that sort of content.
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I returned to you.
No matter what I did to quit you,
I could not detach from you.
You fill my veins,
and control my thoughts.
This was inevitable.
We were not meant to be more than us.
Through one brief encounter,
We shared unquestioning lust.
And through anticipated breath,
The silence was broken.
In those moments I was ready to follow you,
To answer you,
To do anything to please you.
Your eyes teased me,
Your lips called me.
And before I knew what would happen,
I was on the edge,
My breath faltering,
as my chest inhaled your entoxicating scent.
Your entoxicating scent,
lingering.
Each pause more enticing than the last,
each movement calculated.
Driven by compulsion,
We trace dreams with our fingertips,
writing stories into our skin.
Consuming each other,
filling the spaces inbetween,
no question left unanswered.
Our eyes focused on desire,
letting instinct take over.
Arching into your skin,
as my senses overwhelmed me.
Letting all of you become me.
Collapsing into your embrace,
as we catched our breath.
And fell into a heady slumber,
still tangled from what came before.
Jen Pickering
Whilst that was incredibly different to many things I have written, i enjoyed the challenge of taking on a topic that is perhaps seen as a little more taboo and turning it into poetic form. I feel like I need to challenge myself more to write about topics I perhaps wouldn’t usually write about in detail or topics I have never written about before. Writing again and just letting the words find their own rythmn felt freeing in a way that I haven’t been able to find in a whie. With a pandemic and redundancy I have been rather, understandably, blocked when it came to inspiration. One of the main reasons I decided to return to something I had written before for inspiration.
I’m so happy I can see my flare returning though. Now to keep it shining.
Love Jen x
Jennifer Pickering 