-like
Braided leather
Snake-like
Leaps through the air
To land on bare back
With a venomous crack
And a slave’s cry of despair!
‘Mercy Mistress’
He cries in vain
As a blood red stripe rises
Ridge-like
A harbinger of pain.
He moans
She pauses
Then raises her arm again
Racket-like
Ready to strike
At his contorted torso of shame.
Afterwards
He slumps from the post
Limp-like
And grovels at her feet
Worm-like
Whipped!