Slowly

Nel in Red Hat (afternoon in Boitsfort)
Rik Wouters, 1916
Photo taken at Exposition at Thyssen Museum

Malaga, 2022

all in its time
all in its season
only when you are ready

only when you sense reason

in what we do and say
with and to one another
if and as you feel
there is no other way

slowly but surely
you will become my lady
your lips will open
your legs will part

your heart will embrace me
your mind will say this is
where I have always wanted to be
and where I want to stay

2016

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