A/N: Written for the 100_poems challenge on livejournal, poem 48/100 and day 23. And would you know, I lost this one because I wrote it on a uni computer and forgot to send it to myself? Naturally I couldn't remember it word for word (don't have a photographic memory^^) but I think I came close enough.
Character Poems: the Chosen through Time
10. Inoue Miyako
She couldn't be tied down:
the ropes chaffed her skin,
ripped her wounds.
Maybe it was a good thing;
maybe not.
It let her take risks,
test her boundaries,
push her limits
Sometimes too far;
she tethered on edges
and fell
But there was always
someone, to grab her hand
or her back –
soften her fall,
help her back up
After all, you couldn't stand
again if one was dead,
crushed beneath the weight
But as long as she could learn
and grow, she'd find a place
where finally, she could take root
without wound.