I miss taking the time to light a candle, put on a blindfold & ear plugs, and lay back with massage oil to slowly and deliberately stroke myself to the edge of climax. Nowadays, it's more of a physical function than a mental adventure.

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Though I am different from you,
We were born involved in one another.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.