Open the fun box, of delightful enchantments
Inside lie thinly veiled toys staring back at you
Daring you to come inside.
There was never anything for me here.
You said you loved me
As you pinned me down
As we rushed in hushed voices
For fear of who may be just below
Only in the lobby
You said it was the best you ever had.
Excuse for a man, what a nasally voice;
What a girlish figure you have
What scary white teeth!
“Please eat me next!” cried the Little Red Riding Hood,
As she laid herself down for the wolf
When longing turns to craving and craving to lust
When you’re showing off yourself just to feel his touch
When you feel him moving back and forth
Will you play his doll just one more time?
Will you smile and nod and save the panic for later?
Then the mask came off and the costume on
Then I watched in grave horror what you were doing to me;
Then I cast the red hood off and I walked away
I buried it all.
Turned anger at myself towards anger at you
And attempted to block it all out.
But just one photograph can set it all off
One line in a song, one feeling you once gave me
Screech shudder and clasp
Sink to my knees, vomit the guilt
The music takes over and I hear your name
The big bad wolf is back to play
And he’s huffing and puffing and blowing me down
Onto my knees,
Spiraling again,
Melting slowly and grasping all traces of flesh.
Supple, balmy, smooth, breathless.
The red cape cast aside
This all started so long ago
But she’s still lying in the cabin in the woods;
Waiting for her wolf to come.
