Watching God

An Olivia Original...didn't know I was a poet o ok 


Their Eyes were watching God is one of my favorite books and now movies as emotion was pulled out of me for both works. I love that finally Janie was able to love and love hard at that.  Though in the end her world seemingly crumbled once her true love Tea Cake passed away, she was actually just free as a woman.  She had lived through two bad marriages and was ready to forget all about the standards society upheld.  Doing what her overbearing husbands had wanted her too was enough for her and after her Mayor husband passed she was still able to be her own woman which was what she had been craving from the start.  I love Janie's character how carefree she was; her hard-headed nature was refreshing to me as the other women in the movie (whom were probably like most women back then) were scared and simply talked about what they wanted to their peers rather than acting on their desires.  My favorite part of this was her taking charge of her feelings and giving the middle finger to what society thought a woman should do, and especially what a woman her age shouldn't do.  Tea Cake saved her and rejuvenated her, which is why I wrote the poem below.  


Enjoy it and remember, 
Liv Right ;)


Ageless Temptation 
Love is a Fight
To put the fire out when the gas around your heart ignites
Started w/ a single match strike
As they innocently played checkers in the evening light.
Trickling over her skin like fingertips playing gently in a lite rain
She liked it.
Soft giggles sent from between her lips 
As he caresses hers w/ his
After he did something different and after dark took her to go and fish!
Sighs released when his hands found her thighs
Silky touches begins the rolling of Janie's eyes 
Shakes and tiny tingles tantalized her,
  sending a sweet headache her way as she tried to grasp the confusing reality 
  that
  this
  was 
 LOVE. 
Confused as to what to do next because society, 
from her actions would surely be vexed.
He gripped her tighter as if they could possibly bcome one. 
She dared not look away from his gaze as  he may be gone as the people said
just as quickly as he had come.
Away like a thief in the night.
12 years older, he don't want you, they said 
Yet he was Tea Cake and Janie was ready to be fed.
He made her temperature raise matching her hearts intense pace.
I love u was more than a sweet nothing but an orgasmic truth 
But only when they came from those lips, those that belong to you.
Her body tried to steady itself to overcome the prescene of you. 
It's fighting, fighting, fighting, but 
She. 
Hopes. 
It. Loses!
Because she loves how it feels,
like fearfully watching God, 
it makes her woozy.