While the people in the story told by this song are fictional, my polyamory is not. I am proudly and joyfully polyamorous, and in the middle of my urgency to find art that represents the way I love, this song emerged and wrote itself one evening after work.
lyrics
She sat by my right
At the party last night
With a glass of merlot
She looked mighty fine
With her arm in mine
Drinking her wine
And blushing like a rose
He came up to me
To fill the vacancy
On the couch to my left
He looked me straight in the eye
As we were touching thighs
And oh my how I
Could feel his hot breath
Hey handsome mister
You watched as I kissed her
Do you like what you see?
Hey pretty sister
Would you kiss two misters
On terms to which we’d all agree?
We could try loving in threes
There is no song on the radio that
Speaks to this love, ‘cause my
Heart only beats in poly rhythms
The more are the merry
So let’s quit this binary
There’s so much that love can do
With more than two
I’d be a liar if I
Said I didn’t get jealous sometimes
But love is not a
Quantity that’s finite like a
Nickel or a dime
My love grows in a
Garden among many other loves
My love is
Abundant as the autumn leaves and
Free to fly as uncaged doves
I’ll smile at your smile
No matter who made it
I love when you get what you need
We don’t need direction
A socialized suggestion
A normative projection
A recommendation
On sharing our love as we please
There is no song on the radio that
Speaks to this love, ‘cause my
Heart only beats in poly rhythms
The more are the merry
So let’s quit this binary
There’s so much that love can do
There’s so much that love can do
I could be your lover
I could be your friend, or
I could be your sweetie
We could have another
Lover if you wanted to
We could love as more than two
She and she and
She and he and
Me and she and
He and me and
He and he and
They and me and
They and we don’t
Belong to each other
And we dare to be happy with
More than one lover
There is no song on the radio that
Speaks to this love, ‘cause my
Heart only beats in poly rhythms
The more are the merry
So let’s quit this binary
There’s so much that love can do
There’s so much that love can do
With more than two
She sat next to me
And he kissed my cheek
And they took me home
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