Men Loving Men

Men have always enjoyed erotic encounters with men

on heaths, in woods, on beaches, in parks, cottages, saunas and secret sex dens

this has been going on since humans walked the earth –

communing with Pan, Eros, Priapus, Dionysus,

we recall we came seeking ecstasy, union, bliss

when we chose to undertake birth

into human form, into bodies made for divinity –

there’s few things more sacred than naked bodies in proximity.

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Taboos against our lovemaking, built up over centuries

mean we less likely today to realise the power we are creating

with our hands, with our bodies, with our hearts and souls:

power to heal, power to reveal, power to become whole.

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Men loving men in body and heart

is an ancient erotic holy art.

And even today, in our age of profanity

with a gay world suffering from drug use and vanity,

men meeting men is a radical act, a rite of friendship, brotherhood, humanity

sharing pleasure and joy, not looking for trouble, not looking to fight

reclaiming the act of men loving men as a simple human right.