Composed and sleek,
the veneer masks
the insatiable
predator beneath.

Body with lucid, instant recall,
unacquainted with limitation,
exquisitely honed in imagination,
living for days
of unfettered forays
into immediacy
carefree, and,
oh, so easy.

Give a bit,
take a bit,
bite-size highs,
never the whole
depart,
untouched and unscathed.
uncovered, but not bared.
unrobed, but not exposed.

The epitome of simplicity,
until, the eye’s glint transmutes
irrefutably revealing.

Sound bites may titillate
but they no longer satisfy -
craving, the whole,
or nothing at all.
leaving no cell unfilled
no barricade unfelled
it surges unbidden
stripping until
naked.