Wild Twin
Wild twin
When she clawed at
The freshly painted
White walls
Trying to escape
I bound her tightly
In chains
When she howled
In anger
And in grief
At her incarceration
I silenced her
With rags
When she thrashed
And kicked
In an effort
To free herself
I suppressed her
With my body
In the darkness
She stayed
Cast out
Confined
Just waiting to be
Invited home
And when I crumbled
Under the weight
Of expectations
Of polite society
Who did I call for?
Her
She who could claw
And howl
And thrash
And kick
And save me
From my rubble
She with stained lips
From hedgerow berries
Plucked
And eaten
Without a care
For maggots
She with grazed knees
And grass stains
From tumbling
Out of trees
Without a care
For broken bones
She with dusty feet
From running
Just for the joy of feeling
Wind on a still day
Without a care
For breathlessness
She who dances
By firelight
To the beat of
Her own drum
Without a care
Who sees
She who knows
Where the sun rises
And sets
And the length of the night
Without a care
For the darkness
My wild twin
The beautiful one
Who I banished
All those years ago
Back when I was
A fool