Sex Is Not a Performance Art

Poem by Rocco Valentini

Artwork Sourced from Pinterest. Artist: Unknown.

Sex Is Not a Performance Art

by Antonio Rocco S. (Rocco Valentini)

Sex is not a performance art
It is not Cirque du Soleil.
You cannot film the beat of two hearts
And turn their rhythm into a public display.

Love cannot be captured in a photograph
It cannot be performed on stage.
A heart’s content cannot be detected on a sonograph
Intimacy should never be confined to a glass cage.

Sex is the form that love embodies
And its practice should never be maligned.
However overeating leaves stretch marks on the body
And casual sex leaves stretch marks on the mind. 

Love is seeing someone’s mind as your scripture.
Lust is seeing someone’s body as your church.
In a loving relationship sex must be a fixture—
Love without sex is like faith without works.