A/N: Written for the Freeverse Frenzie Competition, poem 42. Also for table 10 on prompt central, prompt #008: Contract. The character in this is Mitsuru – Shigure's editor.
I knew I had these somewhere. :D
A Basket of Rice Balls
8. Contract
She didn't know why she stayed.
It wasn't love:
he barely looked at her
and her eyes were blurred with tears
at the sight of him.
Though he did his work
and she got her due…
It seemed she had resigned herself
to a short-timed fate
Because she couldn't cut
the sightless rope
that bound her to that place.