New Tricks

It is a great distance for a single man to cover
Between being alone in the world to taking a lover
The intimacy required is never easily expressed
Those words she longs to hear have long been suppressed

He walks in circles tongue tied and lost
The emotions he feels he knows come at a cost
He only wants it to be simple, straightforward and easy
Like in his dreams, where she is both pure and porn sleazy

He is rudderless in an ocean of open displays of affection
Of smells and of tastes and of jealous over-protection
The impact it has changes every aspect of his life
Until he grows to understand she’s a friend as well as a wife

It is expectations he has never before had to control
He never understood his part until he became part of the whole