tennis
Today I played tennis for the first time with my lover,
swinging balls and through it all I wasn't very good
but I found out about my mother
how she used to play
big bellied
me on the way
and I felt closer to her in the way that an infant does
and I felt closer to my lover the way that a scared little girl would
but i'm evolving
I can feel it in my blistered feet
the way my lover fetches all my overshot balls
and kisses me and makes the calls
I just want to be touched and loved
and caressed and hugged
or to roll around on dirty rugs
where you first found me,
kissed my fingertips
told me I could do it
and I believed you.
swinging balls and through it all I wasn't very good
but I found out about my mother
how she used to play
big bellied
me on the way
and I felt closer to her in the way that an infant does
and I felt closer to my lover the way that a scared little girl would
but i'm evolving
I can feel it in my blistered feet
the way my lover fetches all my overshot balls
and kisses me and makes the calls
I just want to be touched and loved
and caressed and hugged
or to roll around on dirty rugs
where you first found me,
kissed my fingertips
told me I could do it
and I believed you.