TonyHamid

broken free

(A horse, when it is tamed from its wild state, is said to be broken in. This poem is a bit about that) you broke me intethered mekept me on a long leashgraduallyshortening and shorteningthe ropetill i came closeand you could touch mesaddle meand put reins round meand a bit in my mouth but ifelt the wild of the windblowing and callingbreak freebreak freein the stablei kicked off my horseshoesand in the circle of fencesi rani ranjumping the high barrier shaking my manesnorting my angerfreeing my horse cryto echo outout into the wild wildmeadowsand beyond