25, an erotic poem by Kim Moore

25

by Kim Moore

If I’m ever bored of monogamy,
I’ll come and find you,
we’ll go to bed and do

things we would not do
with any other (I will not name
them here.) I don’t blame

you for asking, I blame
you for not asking sooner.
I used to think you were a user.

I thought I knew what a user
was. I thought it was just lust
but you were the best

at some things, the best
that I’ve known. How we pretended
none of it mattered! It’s splendid

to look back on it now, it was splendid
to know you. If I’m ever bored of monogamy
I know who to turn to.