This short story is an entry in the 2002 Soc.Sexuality.Spanking Summer Short Story Contest and is copyright by the author and commercial use is prohibited without permission.  Personal/private copies are permitted only if complete including the copyright notice.  The author would appreciate your comments

Category:  Parody/Poetry   This was originally going to be a mini saga, but there were just too many words, and too much to say, so here's another one for the poetry category. LOL
 

Why Do I Want This

By

Jen <jklbot@comcast.net>

Why do I want this?
I only know that I need it,
There's no question in my mind,
The white hot pain,
The loss of control,
The complete release,
I need these things to settle my soul,
To make things right again.

I need you to give me these things,
Because you're the only one
who truly can,
You're the one who knows
why I need it,
Why it helps me to be who I am,
and who won't ask
why do I want this.

The End

© Copyright Summer, 2002

Reviews

John  <johnb(at)ssec(dot)wisc(dot)edu>
There is a real serenity that comes through in these few words.  A sense of calm acceptance.  And the ending is sane and somehow almost triumphant.

The really best poems are Really Hard Work.  Poetry is distilled language, and each word must be perfect and cause resonance of sound, meaning, and emotional evocation all at once.  This work doesn't quite scale those heights.  But seeing that when the writer first sat down, she wasn't even attempting to commit poetry, it's pretty damn nice.

Margaret  <wessyLA(at)aol(dot)com>
I liked the very deft use of words in this piece.  It explores the mixed emotions we all have about our kink without drawing any facile conclusions.  Thank you for sending this along.

Mary Catherine  <marycatherine(at)saintfrancis-sfg(dot)net>
A very nice poem that asks the questions that we've all faced at one time or another. It's often quite hard to articulate WIITWD, and this piece does that well.

MollyB  <mollyb(at)newsguy(dot)com>
A question many of us have asked, no doubt.

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