Broken

Broken



Like a wild stallion,
that will not be saddled, spitting the bit,
I bucked and threw every rider
galloping toward the infinite open...

With nostrils flaring, mane blowing,
it was a brief sprint of being harnessed to no one;
Until, as all dreams, I was stopped at the fence
only to be led back, by a lead, bridled and broken.
 



John Thomas Tansey
Copyright © | Year Posted 2019

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December 9, 2019 at 3:27 AM
Ah, a personification poem too! These are my favorites. This is no exception to that.
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