Why Are Sex And Food Opposites?

With food the starter is the lightest dish,
a taste of what is to come, to be going on with.
A dish with which to put guests at ease,
the better to encourage conversation.

But in sex the foreplay is the greater part,
the extended repast that warms the partners.
Foreplay is what prepares them both
for the main course where many a man,
overhwelmed by desire, makes short shrift
of his lot, much to frustration of their partner.

The best folk enrich the event with music.
Combining the two appetites make the event longer. 

For Older People,

and the tired of living, rediscovering sex
is the start of a slow dance with the ghost
within them, less out of being driven
and then divided by pro-creation,
more to refresh the simpler hope of gently feeling alive
through and with another, whilst the sense of touch
can still light up life, as it flickers through their frame.