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"Wound" and "Ensnared" Wound Ensnared in want and wound in vice,as spoils you seize, without much toildefeat of will as compromiseas skin slips sinew without recoil. In search for parting pleads my flesh,against all sense and sanity,your ivory grip to spike afresh and sanctify my vanity. When famine finds a feast beyondthe depth of fear’s furrowed brow,I cede and bleed into this fontto slake your thirst that only grows. So with a hunger still to sateand trails of waiting prey at bayyou forsake this lamb to jaws of fateunveiled to all and led astray. From refuge ripped too raw to resistall prying eyes probing with pride,I forego the fight to desistand succumb to a saviour in hide. The rush of sanguine victoryand wanton wails its will stirs,in erasure reigns ecstasy; Charades now fade to a blur. The morn illumes, unveils, uncloaksmy spiraled spirit, its damned prey.Now cast among the barren oaks,none more to shed, none more to slay. From gloom comes yet an old glint -My knight, now home from his stalk,unshuns me after his stint -his sanctuary, now my rock Yet it had to be fed, a desiretoo weak to desist, couldn’t be hidden.“Cast her away”, so you decideto banish me anew from Eden Ensnared Beware the snare the fowler twirls in thoughtwith rings in feather and ropes in leather, aimedto bring you to the doors of a fate unsought A tale entranced, its weaves in silken knot,a fire it fans that leaves you enflamed -Beware the snare the fowler twirls in thought! To lands of illusion shall you be broughtwhere streams of stifling sighs wail untamedto bring you to the doors of a fate unsought At dusk rises a dream, hiding wiles uncaught‘til you wake to a world in shades all maimed -Beware the snare the fowler twirls in thought! In fetters find your feet a lure in rot,beset in bars of gold that march in frameto bring you to the doors of a fate unsought Lest you find yourself in a spot so wrought,heed in haste and your power now reclaim -Beware the snare the fowler twirls in thoughtto bring you to the doors of a fate unsought. https://www.unlikelystories.org/content/wound-and-ensnared