With Age Comes Increased Respect For Figures From The Past

Though getting there seems quite painful, as we
make the mistakes from which we might learn
without knowing which mistakes are the right ones
for learning from. One of hardest mistakes to recover
from is knowing how a body needs rest with another
but finding the fellow body/person we are comfortable
with, and with which doing nothing seems easy 
for both is a rarer and greater gift than we knew.   

 

Skin Tight

'We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement
inside our skins for life'-Tennessee Williams,
from 'Orpheus Descending'.

And we may well be right to expect discomfort
 when we get outside of our skins too. 

Deceptive Appearances

'Hypocrisy is the soul of politeness'-Tennessee Williams.

And he knew of what he spoke, he was raised
to represent 'the southern gentleman' in his plays
but knew that behind the guise of gentleness
there raged a passion, possessiveness and anger
that no female dependent on a man would cross.