Please Don't Mind if I Make Love to You

Music: Partita in C Minor. By J.S. Bach. Sequenced by David Grossman.

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Please don't mind if I make love to you Imagining another in my arms. No one special - anyone will do Whose claims have not yet sanitized her charms. Lust loves not love, but finds its joy in power: To stir someone to sunlit ecstasy; To purchase someone's person by the hour; To force the flesh to yield the fantasy. Love loves not lust, but finds its joy in giving: Pleasure, yes, but passion slowly fades. Affection, yes, but one needs more from living: The knife-sharp edge of lust that love betrays. Give then, my love, the flesh that spurs the dream, As I for you, that lust might love redeem.