"Embrace of the Web" by Mia.
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THE WEB
by Emma Paulet
The web warps
when I exhale,
my soul escaping my nostrils,
my lips —
then I breathe it back
and it wails, wails, wails.
I have time —
all the time in this room —
to breathe
in and out,
in and out.
And you
(oh, you) —
you lie on
the floor
in your final exhalation;
you will breathe
no more.
Relieved?
I am, indeed —
this is exaltation,
but I will miss you
and your screams
when ennui descends.
You were my favourite foe,
dom, proctor, collector, boyfriend.
An overlapping abbreviation of Bondage and Discipline (BD), Dominance and Submission (DS), Sadism and Masochism (SM)
Emma Paulet started out in life by being born. She studies English at the University of Pretoria in South Africa and is the current Chair of Creative Writing for The Inklings Society. Her poems usually scare her parents. This is her first international publication.
