Your hands wash over me like waves
Tugging at string, seen and unseen
As you peel away the layers
Leaving me naked, exposed, afraid
And you could treat me like your puppet
Another in a long list of players
I would let you, gladly, never saying a word
As you carefully hung me from the cross
Strings tight around wrists and ankle
Dangling me over the water
Making me dance for you
But you don’t, and this…
This is why I lie still as you strip me from my clothes
And peel away my flesh
And muscle
And bone
Until there is nothing but a memory of the girl I was before you
And you, eyes sparkling with mischief
Drunk on the moonlight and the kisses we shared
Laughing as I return the favor
Here at the water’s edge
As the tide rolls over us
And pulls us out to sea