{"id":12459,"date":"2023-01-21T14:34:42","date_gmt":"2023-01-21T14:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.co.uk\/?p=12459"},"modified":"2023-01-21T14:36:37","modified_gmt":"2023-01-21T14:36:37","slug":"the-erotic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/21\/the-erotic\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>The Erotic<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was born blind&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yet I sense things&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With an unusual intensity&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That I cannot really explain&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I know that my wife is beautiful&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even though I will never see her&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not for a second&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I will die blind&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Darkness into Darkness&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have yet to come to terms with that&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Each morning I touch the contours of her face&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And rediscover&nbsp;her beauty&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is my Erotic<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She is my friend&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My guide and my companion&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>I met him after the war&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>And thought him lucky&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>As he had not witnessed anything&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>He had heard the war<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Tasted the war&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>And touched the war&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>But he had not seen the war&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>And because of that I was jealous of him&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>I was so tired of the war&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>It had drained me completely<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>He had once told me that\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>War was Kind&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Because&nbsp;it had brought us together<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>But I know that to be untrue&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>As I had lied to him&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>When we first met<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>I told him that I was wearing&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>A Blue Shirt&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>When in fact I was wearing&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>A Red Shirt&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>That was my first lie&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>This was my Erotic&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was born blind&nbsp; 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