Silver Fetters

Silver Fetters

To my Lady, most Lovely, your sweetness I crave

With each beat of my heart and each breath

I take

Iced cruelty in my veins tempered with molten

Generosity, for I will yield all myself to one

Yielded wholly in return.

You were too young, too inexperienced, to traverse

The true Labyrinth,

My very soul, which I offered

To you, in abject supplication,

Certain you would, overwhelmed, accept....

You BANISHED me!

with a formulaic spell

Although your heart tried to override your will and failed.

You returned home as did I, but I

Oh, I was a king in chains!

You refused my offer of mutual enslavement

Even as your heart wove the subtlest of mortal magicks,

Binding itself to my heart with fine filaments of longing

And silver fetters of desire and need,

Both dark and fair.....

In your hesitation, kept secret from yourself,

Your newborn love ensnared my fey heart and chained us so

That even death cannot part us.

And you say I have no power over you?

How can I when 'tis you who holds the key?