Alone

Waiting between pains
Waiting between breaths
Wishing I was between your arms instead
The heat and cold alternate in waves
Tears fill my eyes
Sweat glistens on my brow
Tied in knots
Tongue-tied
So many ways to be tied
Trying to distract myself
Watching the horizon
If the sun comes
Then I have survived
One more night
One more day
Alone

The Conversation*(An adventure in Sonnets Part 2)

No longer, a child do I seek

Nature or nurture neither will sway

My own body, my will, wilst not obey

Stay quiet love and let me speak

With thy noble equine visage, sallow, hallow'd cheek

You cannot answer thus today

Less your mother belied your father with a Fae

Don’t cry my love, one might think you weak

Forsooth, I cannot bare the sight

Though it grieves me much to say it

The words make me, seem flighty and trite

Can I hold your hand before the journey starts?

It scares and pains me to betray it

I care only now for protection, not for our hearts.