YOU WERE A HORSE

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.