Wild thing,
you were the cotton-grass
twisting in the wind.
You longed to lie with him
in the bracken and moss,
let your hair tangle like vines in the earth,
feel his calloused hands warm yours
as the ground chilled your cheeks.
You reveled in his voice,
craggy as the crumbling rocks,
timbre deep as the brown of his eyes.
It was all you wanted and pushed away.
Now you wither at his name,
the guilt-ridden beast in your heart
gnawing ravenously at the thought of
the smell of moonshine on the moors,
making love in the whispering night.
You heard him howl,
tortured and broken when your spirit
dashed off without him,
and n