rapunzel

anywhere
I will be anywhere
but here

it is not me
still upon this boundary,
bloodied

fingers, letting
soar rapunzeled whorls;
my marionette

strings, stripped
from bare flesh – today
dangled like chains

dancing
for - no one, as they
tumble, whirling

with curls, first
floating, now descending
beneath bleak waves

this is not
me gazing on the
precipice of

my fear
of the cell - you
choose for me

I made myself,
so small inside, that
it will not be me

crashing down
though tangling hair, and
chains and in blood

I will
have left long
before my

body caresses the
frigid release, drowning
my demons

surrounding
my songs, my heart
carrying me

away
away, from
here