May 08, 2004

At Home, Just Left my Friend's Home...



I knew that I should not have said that my headache has broken. It came back in spades as if to taunt me for exalting exceedingly much over its departure.

Enough of that nonsense. I am spending the largest part of this weekend cleaning house, taking care of domestic stuff too long ignored, doing school work and preparing for recording on Tuesday and Friday. I have several songs ready and another in the works. It will be a productive session.

I spoke to my friend about past relationships today. I have resolved not to have any secrets from her and to be open. Really, that comes from a time when I was so very compartmentalized and did not want to share parts of me with others. I want to be absolutely available to this person. Discovery is a good thing, commitment is better.

I went through a period of being something of a letch. There was a time when I was sleeping with three or four different women a week, mostly without knowing more than their first name and having a phone number. I would choose a woman and do or say whatever (without any lies being told - that was part of my game) to get her into the sack. I am not really a handsome guy, I am not the most elegant and certainly do not have material wealth. Fucking was easy. Fucking is boring. Fucking just dulled the pain of not having a lover. I practiced safer sex on everything but the emotional level. That is really what cost me. When I separated from S, I became something of a monk. I wanted it to be love not lust, making love not just fucking. The funny thing is that my libido died with that relationship. It is only now coming back to life.

My friend and I made love before we parted company. It was sweet and beautiful. I love that feeling of not knowing where I end and where she begins. I will see her again tomorrow and spend time on Sunday with her. I feel as if I am being renewed, recalled to life, when I am with her. She has become my muse, the subject of more than a few songs and much of the poetry that I am writing. She is beautiful, strong, loving, and wise. I am indeed a lucky man.

LIfe is good... perhaps the fool can take his own advice and live, laugh, and love?

Ah, I am such a lovesick fool!



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