Unchained

 

tall tales and all

Fiction

Poetry

A Tale of Exile

Literary Monuments

Thotlines

Audience Response

I celebrate you
Hopeless surrender consumes me
I'm your prisoner, I'm your slave
I crave your chains of shameless passions
I seek your face in lonely caves of my heart
I have known you in my midnight and in my dawn
I have known your touch, your smell, your taste
The tender tease of your fluttering breath
I have drunk of your pain and pleasure

When I'm with you
I let go my own chains of civility
Then I tumble into voids of teary sweetness
A gasp is caught in my throat, and lets loose
Like a dove arrested in mid-flight from its cage
I'm suspended upon the crest of my wave
Crumbs of ecstasy blind my vision
Mounds rapture in flashes of fire
Breath lifts me high
I close my eyes
And I celebrate you.
 

Mkawasi Mcharo Hall
© mkmc 11Oct2004 washington, dc

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