It’s not the nakedness I resist
It’s the inner revealing
I’ve been naked before.
Naked the day I was born
Naked as a child dancing in the rain
Naked as a young lover dancing in the field
Half naked in photographs
Naked in passionate embraces
Naked is easier than
Revealing your heart
Simpler than
Unveiling your soul
Or perhaps it was all very easy
To be Naked in all ways
Body, Heart, Soul
When we were innocent
And knew not of the world
Starry eyed and eager to share
Until we were met with the first No
Or were not met at all
And then started the veiling
The hiding and the running
The Covering of all
That was too fragile
To be seen again
It’s not the nakedness I resist
It’s the inner revealing
And yet that’s all the soul wants
To be known
And that’s all the heart wants
To be felt
To love
And that’s all the body wants
To reveal the soul
In its magnificent
Nakedness
