You entered my life with unnecessary force
As if I were a child that needed discipline
You bent me over your will and punished me
With your dangerous weapons on display
Oh love! I come in peace with open arms
Must you seize me, break me, curse me,
Only to try to heal me with a moist embrace?
My heart is full of longing, my body aches to be
your playground, your workshop, your home
It begs for only the briefest show of weakness
A slight dip of the mask, a flash of tenderness
And I’d be your slave not by brute force
But by the sweetest surrender of love