Abstinence

Avoiding intimacy for the sake of faith
There are times it is difficult to wait 
Touch is an experience that we all crave
Like a blue butterfly going from flower 
to flower, sampling the taste of each one, 
As we sit on the same perennial trying 
To wait for the right moment 
Hoping that it wasn't in vain to abstain
As you hear others gleefully brag about
Their escapades in the game of lust 
You wonder if there are experiences 
That you are missing out on 
Because sticking to your morals 
Can leave you walking on the loneliest 
Of roads, sometimes without direction, 
But as long as there is love at the end of it
And the right person, time,
other people, and modern expectations,
Are irrelevant and it means that you 
followed your heart despite the temptation.