Lets cut all the tethers and just dance together

I always felt you were tethered else where

Some thick black cable that tied your heart to her

Or maybe you are more like a May pole

So many bright ribbons wrapping you round and round

Until you are gone and only an intricate pattern of

Beautiful colors remain

How many hands do you hold my love

How many promises have you whispered in dark rooms

Promises of ‘I love you’

Your were tethered so tautly I could play those stings

Those secret songs you were singing

I felt the reverberation of all those hearts tied to yours

And the cacophony struck me deaf and I couldn’t sleep next to you

We are all a web of our own making

The center of our own network of cables

Some delicate, day to day encounters

The passing of those little loves, strangers on the street

From which we are easily freed

Other tethers are frayed from distance or distrust

But still attach to us

Darling you shouldn’t pull your web too tight

Or tie yourself so causally to other hearts

Because a tether can become a noose so quickly

And while I was hanging on every word you said

You were dangling my heart with another’s

Unable to decide on which chord to play

which string to cut

in my rib cage I could feel you wound round and round

until I was sure you were tuning me too tight

so I ask you love

Lets cut all the tethers and just dance together

We don’t need the songs of other strings

I’ll dance with you in silence and leave my line

Love me and love me only

~an Emma original~

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