panties and bra

i toast you

for the way you wear yourself

honestly

the way you stand

the flirt you be

you

like the way people hold you

allow you to be

all you may ever be

ever wear

what ever in public space

to be seen

touched

lusted if they must

without crush

or lock up

or fuck up

or stupid stuff

there you are 

beaming

cute and sexy

mute yet not cold

you without end

moving through life

being what you do not know

becoming what e'er you'll be

safe without case

or chaste abandonment

but there in your glory

with a meaning without end

gives me the sense of sin without end

and grace beyond disgrace

with love beyond rape 

and forgiveness with space

*Christianity and the desert religions generally, and Islam certainly, have a great deal to learn from the Asian tradition of contemplative life as a moderating force to the activistic traditions within the West.  Someone once said that not until Christianity arrives in Asia do we really know its full history, and I think there's some truth to that.  India and China could shape the quality of activism in Christianity and give it a much more paradoxical quality.  This would make it much more difficult for us to say with certainty, "That is Christianity," because the moment we say that, Christianity will always surprise us.  I don't want to be careless about it, but I do find an element of playfulness in Christianity that's present from the very beginning, from the stable.

-Richard Rodriguez

The Sun and the Moon

Your ways R similar 2 the rays of the sun

Warm 2 many but 2 strong 4 some

The more u R  needed the brighter u shine

Watched 4 2 long and your brilliance will blind

The eyes of mortal men who threaten u with doom

They regret 2 c u set but it is time 4 the moon

-Tupac Shakur