I coaxed your petals into full bloom
By nurturing your needs
On moonlit nights or in sunlit beams.
A careful whisper, a hand that feeds,
And, in tenderness, sweet surrender.
Precious cargo, calyx-protected.
Envy of the effete and lechers aplenty,
Overlooking the oft neglected.
- The Measure of a Man
- Unshared Evermore