In dungeons dark they chained her
threw away the key
held captive by a longing
never to be set free.

Fetters binding tightly
cutting into the skin
no movement nor straying
or bleeding would begin.

Pain ripped through her being
as she struggled against the chains
bruised, broken and wounded
from a loved one once again.

No one left to call to
for family had put her here
because her love was not allowed
she was left alone with fear.

Bereft and heavily burdened
when told her love was wrong
smothered down in darkness
she no longer had a song.