The Innocent Voyeur

A Poem, by C.J. Heck

The Innocent Voyeur
by C.J. Heck 
 
An old man glances  
through his window to one 
in the building below. 

Through slats awry  
in seduction's haste,  
candlelight strobes  
on sweat-glistened bodies.
 
He watches, transfixed,  
at the images  
through the blinds,  
eyes too frozen to obey. 
 
(Turn your head! Go to bed!).  
 
Two bodies loving, unaware  
of the innocent intrusion. 
He watches, aroused,  
passion rising 
in two rooms now.
 
A goddess 
bent over a sofa,  
Adonis behind  
in the flickering light. 
A conqueror, 
a conquest.
  
Memories of his own youth 
rekindle and burn 
and the old man cries. 
 
Bittersweet images
viewed through the blinds 
and he cries ...  

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