You
feel a piercing,
A needle piercing your softness-
your sensitive softness,
your open nerve endings,
your pain is blunted.
The open endings
Of the strands of your sensation
Are burning with a blazing fire.
A tiger pounces on you –
his muscles firm, stretched, in their full might:
He becomes a spider.
You are caged in between his long, emotionless limbs.
The stripes of the tiger ignites the flame;
The spit of the spider keeps you still.
You
dream to be a Serpent.