Seduction

Mother’s best friend, a shapely woman with a sexy smile.
I was fifteen, went to her house with a message -
something about a wedding where mother was cooking -
and she seduced me....Can’t remember it clearly, only that
I was trembling at the sight of her nudeness.

She did the rest, the ecstasy and the enormous newness
of pleasure was like a dream come true....we made love
and I died every time in her ravenous encirclement.

When I left her house, I was a person bewitched but had
the sense to worry what mother would say for me being so
late, but I told her, I had met some friends and we had
gone down to the park feeding the ducks and talking to
the girls....Next time I saw her, I went beetroot, not sure
if I had had a dream, but when mother went into the kitchen
to make coffee, she told me to come back to her house in
the evening....and I did. But someone spoke, when mother
knew, she called her a whore and never spoke to her again.

Yet my loins craved for her, I was a burning flame and we met in
fields and woods....till I had to go to sea as a galley boy.

When I saw her again, she was quite old, perhaps forty five,
and the flame of love had died.