You were a horse. I didn't realize it then, when you stepped towards me then stepped back, but you were. You moved your face up and down, your mane. And I hurt you and you fell back. And a shy horse doesn't come back once it's been hurt. |
Copyright ©2017 Ashi Shadow - 3/15/17 on Averi.
Imagining how she looked around when we first met, so tentative, and also how she looked when she was hurt, so frozen in her frown.