Domination

What is Domination?
By definition, power, control, superiority.
But by practice? Who truly holds the power?
The Master is the tool, yes...
But the sub decides the use.

It is the sub who holds with her lips alone
the power to stop the scene, the play.
The Master may wield the whip,
but the sub can stop it's flight with a whisper.

Who is the stronger?
He who leaves the marks,
or she who endures the pain?
He who ties the bonds?
Or she who loosens them with an utterance?

I ask you Sir!
What is Domination?
Exerting one's will over another,
or inspiring the other to allow it?