Joshua Emboldened
This poem is deliberately provocative.
It gives a voice to the voiceless, recognises that lives matter,
that sexuality is very much a part of every community,
and is many-faceted,
rendering the religious texts from all sources irrelevant,
renders old cliches lbg, lgbtq and glbtq something of a last-century concept …
It takes, though, a very long time to evolve into normality.
This portraiture, too, is deliberately set on the jawline in memory of the painting that once hung high up - some seventeen feet - in my apartment in Liverpool, out of sight of the tongue waggers but always viewable by me, and home for twelve years. The painting is now in the ownership of my closest friends, beautifully and, yes, discreetly displayed in Lancashire away fro the tongue waggers.
To the reader that might be asking what that means, try and imagine hiding the portrait of your spouse or partner for fear of backlash.
His desire is to serve men
To impress upon them their superiority
He does so knowing that he is no underling.
Those days have gone.
He is powerful and sexual.
His sexuality and sensuality
Is the sum total
Of his uniqueness,
His universality,
His appeal to older men.
He understands and delights
in the respect given to older men.
He delights in pleasuring them.
He knows it is his task.
His duty
His role
His gift
He delights in opening up himself
Observing silken thighs
Gleaned and gorgeous
Smooth
And leading into the entry
To his inner being
He is the delight of men
And he delights in men
he thrives on their intercession
Through their semen
Their essence
Their glory
And he in turn gives his essence
And empowers men
He is the master of his fate
He holds the key to diplomacy
Denied many - granted to few
And he has that key
He observes his life
He recalls the past
To things that went awry
To writing off men in light of youth
And hurting souls of men his elders
Now he teaches them
He leads by example
And young men look to him
To see how he turned loathing into love
This, he determines is his life’s purpose
His universe is his sexuality
His sexuality thus provides his sensuality
His gift back to the universe is his sexuality
And thus he becomes
Complete
Whole
Humble
Beautiful
Look Away ~ You do not see me!
Look away? Why? Look upon me … feast your eyes
24 December 2022
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© 2023 Kenneth Thomas Webb
Ken Webb is a writer and proofreader. His website, kennwebb.com, showcases his work as a writer, blogger and podcaster, resting on his successive careers as a police officer, progressing to a junior lawyer in succession and trusts as a Fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives, a retired officer with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, and latterly, for three years, the owner and editor of two lifestyle magazines in Liverpool.
He also just handed over a successful two year chairmanship in Gloucestershire with Cheltenham Regency Probus.
Pandemic aside, he spends his time equally between his city, Liverpool, and the county of his birth, Gloucestershire.
In this fast-paced present age, proof-reading is essential. And this skill also occasionally leads to copy-editing writers’ manuscripts for submission to publishers and also student and post graduate dissertations.
