The Inferior Complexities Of Being A Front Spoon

Cherry

By Sooz006

Tue, 31 Jul 2012
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The Inferior Complexities of Being a Front Spoon

I’m a front Spoon
But I desperately want
To be a back spoon
I want to be a care giver
Not a care taker
I want my chest hair to tickle his back
To feel my biceps
Band around him
While I hold him to me
Safe
I want to be the one to
Place my hand
Between his legs
And touch him
Or to bud his nipples
With my calloused palm
But I’ve never done a hard day’s work
In my life
My hands are small and too soft
To ever be able
To form protective fists
And keep him safe
From prejudice and life
My spine curves at just the right angle
To wrap like a C in his body
It isn’t long enough
To stretch
All the way around him
My knees
And groin
And belly
Would never reach
To cushion his buttocks
And thighs
The way he does mine
I want my cock
To fit between his legs
To cradle him in my love
I want him to lean
Into me
And on me
To know that I’m strong
As strong as him
Equal
I want him to need me
As much
As I need him
I want to be a back spoon
So that
He never
Has to be
Frightened again
I want to be a back spoon
To know
That I, too, am a man

Certificate 18
Poem
Romance

Comments

Submitted by Edenfalls on
Powerful stuff Sooz! Unfortunately us blokes have all the right equipment to be the back spoon. You girlies have all the fabulous parts that make you ideal for the front spoon. It's just nature but what fantastic stuff it is! Loved this, nice to see you doing something a bit different, must be a nice change!

Submitted by jolono on
Sorry Sooz, that's just the way it is! It only works one way. Trust me Sooz you wouldn't want to be a man, you have to shave your face every day, watch lots of football and boxing, in fact any sport, drink loads of beer, tell crude jokes, learn to whistle with two fingers in your mouth,thinking about it, it's not a bad life! Nice writing Sooz, well thought out and very original.

 

Submitted by Sooz006 on
Ta J. I suppose the interpretation that it's written from a woman's point of view does work as well. Nothing wrong with a healthy portion of penis envy. I kind of wouldn't mind one, I suppose, if I couldn't have a hedgehog to keep in the garden and eat slugs. But I actually wrote this from the point of view of two men, one who has naturally taken the role of being subservient to the other. He's a bottom, but there's a top in there fighting to get out... if only his partner would let him. I've had my best mate living with me for a bit. And randomly the other night during one of our many conversations about sex,or mutual lack of, he said,'I'm a front spoon but I desperately want to be a back spoon.'which amused the hell out of me. But If it worked for you with me wanting a cock, that's fine too, I'd be a terrible man though. I hate beer, just can't get the stuff down. Detest sport, any sport, all sport. But I can whistle with four fingers, does that get me an honorary badge for the day?

 

Submitted by jolono on
Ahh now you've said that Sooz, it reads completely differently, my mistake, I thought it was YOU that wanted to be the back spoon! Anyway, any woman that can whistle with four fingers can definately be on the firm!

 

Submitted by Sooz006 on
Thanks also Eden and Archie. I was trying to be just a little bit subtle with this one, maybe I need to make it clearer. It's funny how we read things differently if we know anything about the author. For instance, if you didn't know I was female, I think you would have read this as a gay poem. To me it instantly reads as written from a male perspective, but then I wrote it so I know what I meant. Despite what the words say,a reader, knowing that the writer is female, makes up a picture of a female with a male behind her. It's like a written optical illusion. I like that. Thanks all.

 

Submitted by shoe on
Lovely, original concept, to me it was less about the physical inadequacies as the emotional ones, the longing to protect and to give the feeling of safeness one feels as the 'front spoon'. On the hedgehog front; http://www.africanpygmy-hedgehogs.co.uk/ I want at least three!!!

 

Submitted by Sooz006 on
Thanks Shoe. Yes, really the gender is irrelevant and it works for either interpretation. It's all about wanting to protect and be equal. As to the hedgehog, no I don't want one to keep in a viv. I want a free bog standard flea-ridden big one with a huge appetite for slugs. Though I do have two new pets. They are called Seymour and Slug. They are two insectiverous plants who are going to eat all the pesky slugs in my garden. I brought them home on the front seat of my car and wished I'd taken the trike. They gave of a horrible dead-flesh smell. I find them oddly disgusting and fascinating. I had to cut off all the dead tubular slug-catching things because they hadn't been very well cared for in the garden center and just touching them gave me the willies (oops, we almost got back to the poem, then) Afterwards I couldn't seem to get my hands clean. Seymour and slug live in a dark corner of the garden where I don't have to look at them slug-chomping too often.

 

Submitted by hudsonmoon on
Damn, Sooz. what an amazing piece of writing. Compelling and original. Loved it. And I'm a spooner, so I know of what I speak. Rich

 

Submitted by Sooz006 on
Oi you, there's nowt wrong with my muscles, but I'll give on the penis and chest hair.

 

Submitted by Sooz006 on
Thank you Rich, Just fancied a go at tackling something a bit different.

 

Submitted by Sooz006 on
Wow, Thank you for the cherry Eds. I so didn't expect one for this (Not that I expect to get one for my prose, but I know it's a lot better than my poetry) Hell, most people didn't even understand this one. Thank you ;-)

 

Submitted by Sooz006 on
I've made the change that you suggested Archie, and think it's better for it, thank you.