Poem Written on a Rope

I’ve always enjoyed Leonidas’ shows. He’s a very creative rigger and he always comes up with new and exciting bondage scenes. He’s not the most skilled top you’ve ever seen, but he understands perfectly well the emotional undercurrents of a Shibari scene. For him, when it comes to Shibari, there’s always a poem written on a rope. And I think he’s right.

This time, he said he wanted to emphasize the fact that participants in any given scene always deliver a message. “This message is actually a poem”, he said, and he wanted to share it with us.

The scene went like this. First, he appeared on stage with several sentences written all over his body, the ink still fresh. He was the pen, he said. Then, he brought a nude model to the stage whose skin was really pale. She was the white page on which they would write their poem together. He showed us a rope, a normal rope, and then he slowly tied the model up. 

As he did, he was mumbling a few things, and, from time to time, we could make out a word or two. It was obvious he was trying to put the emotions he was experiencing as he tied the model into words. As he did this, she was also mumbling and whispering things into Leonidas’ ear. This was a poem written by four hands. Or, as Leonidas put it, by two bodies. 

When Leonidas untied her, he began reciting the poem out loud, as if he was reading it from the rope, although it was blank. It was a nice poem about how close he felt to the woman when he tied her up, and how she felt pleasurably invaded, body and soul, as he did so. Since the poem wasn’t actually on a page, it faded into the air once the scene was over. That was the poem written on a rope.

It was a beautiful scene.

This is my Shibari story.