Defiance

Submerged in water fixated
on the wave-like motion
licking up at a long hair
that you mindlessly forgot.
The tub becomes a vessel.

The water teases the snapped root
slowly tempting the hair to slither.
Water pulls, then pushes your hair
then pulls its tail from the vessel

to meander slowly towards me
against each dismissed ripple

and as a cunning serpent
your hair is wrapped around my wrist.