My body you so trepidatiously
clung to with talons
locked on
clawed fingers digging
your feathers flew
as you carried me off
to wilderlands
leaving me nakedly, abandoned
unrecognizable
frozen immobile in my panicked brain looping
til I was nameless, shameless, blameless
fathoms of pain
deep as wells
I stared down into

facing my impending doom

all my fears just

turned

into

release