I dwell in shackles
Among the throes
Of her deafening anguish

Beneath
Her fog of dismay
I coil with fear
Bracing
In the ordinance of her treads

She emerges disheveled
Entombed in agony
Overcome by her thoughts
And the restless sway of emotion

To which
I take root
In the mire of devotion

In defiance
Of the sprawling
Urge to fly

I bear
My rail-thin
And fearful form

Before
Her mighty onslaught
Of primal disarray