Bindings

Your eyes

look into mine

asking, like a collared dog

left tied in the yard

for my hands to

un-knot the rope

unchain me, they say

unchain me 

but you are 

a human creature

not an animal

and your freedom 

is not within 

my gift 

so I hold my hands

awkwardly 

in my lap

and wonder 

at all the ways 

that we bind each other