He called to me.
He knelt before me.
His tears wet my bare cold feet.
Stumbling on the words, he asked me to hurt him.
To love him.
I gave him silence. A long exhalation of moist breath.
He told me that he needs to be gently choked.
To be slapped, spit on.
To be overpowered.
His shame is great but his desire, greater.
To hear names of filth whispered in his ears.
Each word making him whole.
Every syllable washing away his false persona, his outer shell imposed by society.
I closed my eyes. Presented him with the curve of my lashes, my still lips.
His fingers wrapped around my ankles.
The outline of his spine under his smooth pale skin.
He begged me to to take him, penetrate him.
Take away the world, obliterate his boundaries.
Please. He said.
I replied with a lack of motion. Rooted in place.
I waited, like the statues in a hushed an dark church, until he pulled away.
His lean and spare form, fading from my downcast view.
He wants. He aches. He dreams.
I am not an idol.
I do not want worship.
I sent his prayers into the skies, gossamer ribbons floating.
To be caught and answered by another.
