Ponder

I aim to

Break you with

Sweetest brutality,

Soak you into my skin,

Prostrate before me,

Make each nerve ending

Sing like pleasure’s choir,

The only questions

How much can you take?

As a pilgrim dancing,

Suffused in such fierce

Glories,

I take and give,

A polarity deep

As three a.m.

To compel

Your

Surrender

Then afterwards,

Soothe the wild honeyed rush

Of your release,

Gentle and full,

Wrapped around me,

Baby girl,

Here you are,

Bare and safe,

From everything

But

Me,

And even my kind of

Mean is something to

Ponder with a smile.