I am aware (mostly because I’m told over and over) that my writing resonates with women. In the beginning, I was… apprehensive because I thought I expressed myself in too much of a “girly” fashion, with poetry and writing about emotions and generally being soft and fluffy. I just wrote because I needed to express what was going on inside me; writing is my way of self-examination, I suppose.
Now, however, you would not believe how validating and how emotionally fulfilling it is to have magnificent women and beautiful souls reach out to me and say that I touched them. It seems that only the most giving, the most open, the most… feminine of women are taken with my writing so almost every single woman I meet or communicate with is a stunning example of everything that is good in the world.
When I first signed on to FetLife, I did so even though I thought I would be ostracized or at least looked on funny because of my aberrant personality and approach to things. I thought that no woman in her right mind would be interested in something like me. And it turned out to be the complete opposite instead.
Since I came out in public, both online and locally, I have met the most incredible women. None of the women I met when I was playing at being vanilla came even close to the radiant femininity of the women that live this life alongside me.
I am so much in the dark about what’s going on. I am butt-ugly and chubby and a mean, sadistic bastard. Luckily, it appears that the women around me are selectively nearsighted. While I know that the way I express myself and the emotions that rage deep within, resonate with all these incredible and beautiful women, I just don’t get it. I can’t wrap my brain around it.
It sounds weird but it’s true. Not too long ago, Khandroma was trying to make me see it and she made me look at “my statistics.” She had me go back through my recollection of all of my interactions and it was actually shocking for me: Every woman I have reached out to kiss has melted in my arms. Every woman I have reached out to take has given herself to me. Every woman I have played with (even casually) has cried tears for me. Even the ones that swear that they never, ever cry.
All of them. Every. Single. One.
I actually felt nauseated when I made that realization on the phone with Khandroma and she was smug the rest of the day, adorable little kitten that she is. Still, to this day I don’t understand why. The more open I allow myself to be, the more truthful about the true me, heck, the more I hurt these wonderful creatures, the more they like me.
Can’t they see what I am? Can’t they see how dark my eyes become when they crumble emotionally? Can’t they see how psychotic my eyes become? I mean, when she lies crumbled on the floor, crying, then is when I descend on her and penetrate her and take her.
While she’s crying, for goodness sakes.
What’s wrong with me? Nothing.
What’s wrong with her? Nothing.
It just is.
And still, I don’t get it. They are angels; warm, giving, loving, nurturing and compassionate and they choose to be with me.
Don’t get me wrong; I’m not complaining.
I just don’t get it.

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“Resonate” is one of the words that came to mind when I first read your writing. It is not a resonance that faded with a single entry but grew as I immersed myself in each and every page. Connection.
Even better was being able to share your writing with James…and for him to say, “Yes, that is how I feel too.” Romantic sadists that you both are!
Bravo! My world, our world, is the richer for your writing. Thank you for daring to share.
Wry grin. Romantic and sensual sadists that we are… and still, we are both capable of such raw and intense violence when loving the women in our lives. Our beautiful, magnificent, radiant women.
I look at bruises that mar once creamy, pale skin and all I see is her unrestricted acceptance of me. An acceptance that is even stronger than her inviting me into her very body. And my eyes well up when I reflect on the beauty that surrounds me…
You have the gift of being able to hear. I know for me, (and probably many others) I respond because I live in or have lived in a vacuum; a vacuum of being heard emotionally; a vacuum of masculine gallantry; a vacuum of nurturing.
I felt that you saw me, you heard me, and you could feel me. In doing so, you were made safe for me.
For those of us, for me, who do nothing but give to those who have a need, the lure of being nurtured is irresistible. How could I not respond?
You may be a Sadist, but for me and women like me, we know, that in feeding you… finally… finally… we will be cared for and fed, some of us for the first time… the only time… and the last time.
You turned off the vacuum:
Allowing us, Allowing Me,
For just a while.
Sydney, I have ruminated for days trying to come up with something, anything, to say that would convey what I’m feeling.
But nothing comes out. The poet is mute.
I miss you, my dear, sweet Sydney.
I miss you.