Lonely Boy (poem)

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The fan whirls above me

It’s fast rotating blade cools

The body rush

I taste chocolate

On my mouth

Cool cotton sheets underneath my body

My lovers deep slow inhale

Lower back twinges

Reminding me of my ageing

Enthusiasm

It’s thirty minutes after midnight

And the endorphins and the sex

Nor the chocolate and cool sheets

Succeed in piercing into this macrabe

Mind

I’m in a desert

And it’s late and the winds buffet

Relentlessly against me

I’m in a tower in Kuwait

Rest assured that all will be okay

Even as I sit alone

Twelve hours peering into

The deep dark nothing

Of my twenty first year

I was lonely then

Sure the sunrise would alleviate that

When I climbed into the five ton

But fourteen years later

After I said his name amidst the rustle

Of bed clothes and sound of metal springs

I’m none the more accompanied

For who but I can hear the thoughts

Between the ears of a boy so very very

Far from home