VISUAL PROMPT
Prompt submitted by Tenshi

Write a poem about what streetlights make you think of.
Sanctified In Bruises
I don’t ask you to be gentle.
I ask you to mean it.
To press me past the edges
where I stop pretending I’m whole.
You say kneel, and I drop—
not because I’m weak,
but because you strip the world away
until there’s only truth:
your voice,
my breath,
the space between pain and worship.
I wear your grip like scripture,
written in fingers, in teeth,
in bruises blooming like dark flowers
on skin that was too quiet before you.
You ruin me beautifully.
Not with violence—
but precision.
Every slap, a sentence.
Every choke, a sermon.
Every broken moan,
an offering.
You fuck the fear out of me.
You take what I hide
and lay it bare
until I beg with no words left.
This isn’t about control.
It’s about surrender.
Not to a man—
but to the god you become
when you see me
and still want more.
I come undone
on the altar of your hunger.
Not for love, not for safety—
for the holiness
of being owned.
So keep me here.
Collared. Bound. Split open.
I don’t want escape.
I want to belong
so completely
it scars.