De Paul University
Writing from the Inside
Teacher: Zoe Keithley
Older Relationships
There is a richness to older relationships. It is not a question of IS the relationship going anywhere – it is how close, how deep, and how vicious the quality is?
You accept me. I love you. I am me and you love me. This is joy.
The beauty of intimacy, of psychological and physical closeness. Sharing joys and sorrows, disappointments somehow buffered through the loves filter.
I love your touch – it tells me that I am.
In the dark, you are dark – aren’t we all? Yet we see each other.
What does sex mean? How does it make us feel? What do my touches say to you?
I want you more. I grow with you. Is not love beyond color? Can we intelligently say that love can only be white/white? Can’t human love be variegated? Are not zebras part of nature? Don’t opposites attract? Don’t vivid contrasts shout to us? Do we love only if the skin color is right? Do we love only if the hair color is right?