From uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!mintaka!silver!zonker Tue Jun 4 21:16:50 CDT 1991 This is a part of what will eventually evolve into a larger work in progress. It's sort of a mood setting piece... A beginning, if you will. Enjoy. (I hope) (or should I be more Top about this... "You're going to enjoy this, now aren't you??") Love, Life, and Laughter, --Zonker the sudden (adjective courtesy of a Ray Bradbury story) zonker@silver.lcs.mit.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The room is stark, a montage of blacks and browns and warm colors and warm scents of sex and love and passion. Light sifts in through the high windows and scatters across the floor; shadows fall and ripple like leaves. Patches of sunlight warm my skin. She stands before me , beautiful and strong. I kneel before her, bound, with my head high. She caresses my hair and I lean into it, nuzzling her. Then she slips the blindfold over my head and tightens it. And she whispers to me, casting a spell over me. I sink into it, into her power, surrendering to it, giving in as my gift of trust. As her gift of trust, she accepts this. Her voice is slow, simple, but with undertones of seduction and danger; it slips into my mind like the soft underbelly of a tarantula in my hand. /////////\\\\\\\\ Shhh. Relax. Relax into it. Inhale deeply. Hold it for a moment, then exhale and feel all the tension go with it. Again. Inhale. Hold it. And exhale. There now. I bet that feels better. Mmm? Good. Very good. You see? Resisting it will no no good for either of us, really. I'm gonna take you to a space you can't find alone. I'm gonna lead you out of the here and now and into a timeless place without a place inside of both our heads. Both our heads because we're gonna build it together, you and me. I'm gonna lead you in and follow you in and we'll leave time and space and here and now behind and we're gonna just live the moment and each moment will be our time and space and here and now. There are choices in this life. All our lives are choices one after the other and again and over and continually. But we can't fight our choices. We have to accept each choice into our souls and make it a part of us. We have to live each choice. To live it, we have to make these choices and submit to each choice. You have chosen this. Submit to your choice and let it wash over you like the baptismal waters. Let it bear you up ad carry you along. Live the experience. Live the moment. I have submitted, too. I have chosen to lead you into this place and follow you into the space we are making. We are magic and we are creating magic. We are creating magic and building ritual space and in this space you will be sacrificed and reborn and I will be sacrificed and reborn on the altar of our choices and our submission to our choices. I am taking you to a place you cannot reach without me. I will lead you in and follow you in to a place I cannot reach without you. We are building it together and with each moment we make it larger and stronger until the power of our magic and our choices and the power of us as two who are one carries us off like a roaring current in a river spiriting us over the rapids and thru the land our souls inhabit ... to soar free, bound together. To do this, you have to give me something of yourself, but I give you something of myself in return and together we become one and travel to the place we are going. Together we become the magic and the moment. And so we begin. /////////\\\\\\\\ In the room I can hear the sound of leather sliding on itself and metal clattering softly. In my darkness, I wait. Expectant. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- copyright 1991 by Regis M. Donovan. this work may not be reproduced for profit or without this notice. please. have fun. play safe