creative writing: Word of the day

Gratuitous – given freely or without cause

Free love, a trip to back to hippies, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll

The advent of the birth control pill, giving us sexual liberty

The Beatles, Hendrix, the Rolling Stones

Is that really what gave us our identity?

Gratuitous sex was that really something new?

Passion for pleasure surely we could not be the first

To feel the delights, to reach the dizzy heights,

Of sating need, desire, quenching lust’s thirst...