PLEASURES OF VENUS (Venery) Oh Venery! Sweet Venery The pleasures of Venus are no longer mine Venus, with it's cliché passion Candied inclinations Blemished fancies I know all too well. Venery no longer follows me Like a shadow Nor do I idolize it Carrying it's luggage where it goes Venery does not appease me None of it's shallow jewels Acrylic harems Or steel vacous promises Could ever pull me into it's abyss!? And I have licked your honeyed sugar from my lips And I have drowned in your lavish velvets and silks And I have guzzled your wines, till I fainted in your arms And I slept in your bed But when I awoke My lips were but sticky, attracting flies My body was furiously perspiring And my head throbbed All too much All in excess If the pleasures of Venus are no longer mine What other pleasures have I to find? If the pleasures of Venus are mine to demand I will be left with no more then flesh to hand? For I can always sit in Venus's pleasure seat But it does not guarentee a life complete No, mere and only pleasures of Venus Are hardly Enough For me For me, my life And not Venery.