I will protect you

Sex without Love by Sharon Olds

'How do they do it, the ones who make love
without love?  Beautiful as dancers,
gliding over each other like ice-skaters
over the ice, fingers hooked
inside each other's bodies, faces
red as steak, wine, wet as the
children at birth whose mothers are going to
give them away. '

La Douleur by Pablo Picasso
 ( is it a self portrait?)