Why oh why did you

Have to sink your claws

Into me and toss my heart

Into the open ocean?

For now I am drowning

In this loveless devotion.

Sail away, sail away

Back to your distant shore;

I no longer want to be anchored,

Or tied down to this wretched moor.

It is time that this ringed clasp,

Which has now become so remote

Harked back to its owner

With whom my heart tragically broke.

October 2011