OPTICAL ILLUSION

A woven web, tangled with twisted stories. "How can someone have a climax without a beginning, middle or an end?"

Just like a kiss. There has to be a moment of intimacy, a moment of evaluation. Where will that moment go and how may it end? There is no absolution, just a resolution that everything will turn out right and the way the agenda was planned out. Yet often some people get lost and it is a deadly miscalculation.

Wondering days and miserable nights would leave any mortal delusional and disoriented. My heart hungered and my body craved his bodily offerings.

His eyes were like florescent images of truth and prefabricated blue prints. I was thirty in his desert. Licking my lips, his touch quenched my thirst and fed my appetite. The sand was burning and hot beneath my feet and there he was like a pond in the palm trees waiting for my arrival.

Dehydrated and weak, I lay there limp in his arms as he gave me mouth to mouth resuscitation to revive me. My vitals returned and I became conscious. We gazed at one another for a brief second, then undressed each other slowly yet in a provocative manner.

He was my doctor and I was his patient for I waited patiently to recover from the blusterous journey of malnutrition dreadful weather. Instead of getting a sticker for being good, he just gave me his version of a body tattoo. Skin to skin we blended like Chameleons in a tropical rain forest, making sounds not even the discovery channel could record.

But then suddenly, everything became quiet. I opened my eyes again and he vanished. I lay there naked in a puddle of muddy water. There was no pond and there was no man within a hundred yards. Barely coheir-ant I attempted to stand up only to fall back to my knees. The moment was so wonderful and I could still taste him on my lips. His scent filled the air and I reached for his hand but there nothing to hold on to.

My reality was not what it seemed. My desires were fulfilled but I was left empty. He was not only my planned fantasy, but in the end he was my optical illusion....