Confession

 
  	(You ask what I want.
 	I cannot tell you: Catholic upbringing, New England prudery,
 	a habit of silence combine to smother the words.
 	So write it, you say.)
 
I want everything, you see.
Men and women
indoors and out
top and bottom and sideways
to come screaming in a deserted forest 
so that the only creatures startled are the deer.  
 
More than a little bit of an exhibitionist.
 
Eyes watching
caressing
stripping away the layers
the flimsy chiffon covering of propriety
leaving me gloriously naked to a stranger's fevered gaze.
 
I tease them shamelessly walking down the street
in cut-off jeans and minimal tank, hair swinging.
 
I make them wonder as they read my words
stare at the screen
touch themselves
 
 	(wonder if this is me; wonder if it is only a poem).
 
Riding the power trip
to its heights
 
 	(and I will taste the depths)
 
tied down so all I can do is strain against the black silk
blindfolded, so I don't know whether you will lick a nipple next
spank me until I'm sore and screaming
begging for more.
 
I am not quite as brave as I would wish, but if I could
 
 	I would risk getting caught on the quads at night.  
 	I would have two men at once, maybe three.  
 	I would be fucked until I pass out.  
 	I would have sex with someone without knowing whom it is.  
 	I would do all the shameful things a good Catholic girl
 		should never, ever think of.
 
And I would tell you about it.
 
*****
M.A. Mohanraj
July 28, 1993