Ode to a Bath

by Lanae Rivers-Woods

Smooth flirtatious water … ripple
You move in sultry slowness
Soft sloshes seductively sigh my name
Your wet embrace slides smoothly up my sensitive skin

I have yearned for you … dreamt of you
Desired your elements to immerse me
To sink into my every pore and rebuild my road-weary epidermis

Forever I have craved you
Waited to breath you into my lungs
To be a part of your sensual, spiritual domain
In your darkest depths I long to roam in fearless freedom

I long to be in you … part of you

This I am denied unto death
For now you are only a siren’s call I resist
I have no permanent place below your sparkling, shimmering surface

My fate is to lust after you … to take only what I can
A brief, yet timeless, moment in a porcelain tub
A place where you can touch every inch of me, caress me, lap at my toes

In this shell I confine you … control you

You’re safe and undaunting
Here I can surrender to you and the power you have over my soul
So touch me, caress me, move in rhythmic motions against my face
Let me move, let me rest, let me be part of you

For this moment let me be … liquid.

Lanae Rivers-Woods is a visual artist, writer, and owner of La Familia Gallery in Seattle, WA. Her first book Chasing Tales will be released this fall. You can visit the gallery website at www.lafamiliallc.com or drop her an email at gallery@lafamiliallc.com.