Tame

Let us both pretend we can tame each other.

Let us both pretend we're not mountains,

but people who fit quietly inside houses

Let us both pretend that our water runs

slow and thick like blood, instead of

unchecked and tenebrous as oceans

Let us both pretend we take tea like humans

in the afternoons

we are not deer, and we are not running,

we are not hawks, and we've never felt

the squirm of rodents in our claws

we've never felt the lift of a sudden wind

Let us both pretend we can tame each other

with nothing more than our will

That we're not lightning, or tall trees,

or echoes in canyons

older than time

*We are storms and we are breaking

somewhere over to the West*

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