Ownership

In the beginning 
you would tell me, 
“you make me want to be
a better person”.

And I don’t think either of us 
thought about why
you’d need someone else 
for that.

Right enough, though, eh.
Since the more I withdrew, 
at the end, 
the less you tried. 

And, with that statement
having handed me 
the reins 
around your anger,

it could be my fault
when all its horses 
broke loose
and ran me down.

But, in that wild stampede, 
you forgot 
that I was raised 
by the untamed.

And 
I know them.
They’re barely more than 
terrified, sensitive animals.

But, also, that if 
ten years plus 
was not enough to earn their trust 
and calm them,

we can be sure
that they
never were
mine.

(…And that horses
are fucking expensive).



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