A Different Kind of Love

Poetry

Love me for me, not the body you see
No desire for physical intimacy
Gentle kisses and caring touches
Enough to reach comfort but in society is greatly outnumbered
Sexual attraction encumbered in “normality”

Searching for someone to understand
Love not always measured by a caressing hand
Seeking validity, fitting the image of “normalcy”
Defined through desire for sexual activity in todays society

What kind of world would it be without physical intimacy?
The question that haunts the terms of asexuality
Body buffering — bluffing in the moment of intimacy
Uncomfortable with fulfilling the expectations of another

Something that can be a bother for someone unfamiliar
May be peculiar to those uneducated
Physical intimacy doesn’t feel like home
Love shown in other ways, not held on the pillar of sexualization
In my imagination, a perfect world is one without sex
If sex was inexistent, it wouldn’t be a distant memory