- Non-Erotic Poetry
- The Tethered
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You took the mind you tethered,
to a heart so beat and worn;
whilst as it softened, revelled,
whilst held it captive,
set it free.
Saw colours, birds, the dreaming:
in each a stark return;
more forgetting to
remember,
unsettled ghosts
it did not see.
It asked, as wings expanded,
of whispers left before.
Words unspoken
to the haunted,
but marked so deep and hard
on me.
Your owls all flew at night,
on lakes their shadows formed;
and though shivers crept in moonlight,
those feathers left
the tethered be.
