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Marked
His teeth sink
Into my flesh
Just enough
To draw pain
Mixed with
Intense pleasure
He sucks and
He bites
Leaving His mark
i have been
Claimed as His
To be used
Marked
Where only
He can
His teeth sink
Into my flesh
Just enough
To draw pain
Mixed with
Intense pleasure
He sucks and
He bites
Leaving His mark
i have been
Claimed as His
To be used
Marked
Where only
He can
This one disturbed me. And, quite frankly, I was going to criticize it rather harshly. Then I figured out something. In these particular poems, perhaps you are saying more about the speaker's lover than the speaker herself. And this will be my reading strategy if I find others in your gallery like this one. It is not the speaker who is at fault for the infliction of pain; it is the inflictor. And in this, the poem is very successful, because you have demonstrated what he does to the speaker. You cast the aspersion, and rightly so, upon him.
Januarian (in Chrismation, Januarius)