Imagine if she'd said no:
Don't give me claws -
I was given for loving,
I did only as you made me.
Imagine her saying it:
No, don't kill him -
Send us into exile,
Beyond sight,
Tell them I died.
Imagine if she'd refused:
No - let's just run away,
Let this be about you and me,
Not you and him.
Theft is better than murder.
Imagine if she'd said:
I never imagined men
Were like you - tender, attentive,
Bearing their own names,
Fragrant, unfettered by fate,
But first I need to leave him.
Imagine if she'd refused:
New-minted, the world glinting,
Let me touch it
With my softness first,
Then choose my own chains.
Imagine her saying it:
I will not turn,
I'll stay scattered, natural,
Making love to earth
And sunlight.
Imagine if she'd said yes:
My son, my own,
You'll grow to be a man,
And just a man,
Wound round with women's love.
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