FRAYED KNOTS

Ties that bind, and
dealing with frayed knots on
wrists from a self-inflicted love affair.

Please don't let me
get free of them just yet
and use the rope to hang myself.

In your wisdom,
you left me in these bonds
to teach me a lesson -- proof you cared!

Watch me pull free again,
phoenix from the ashes once more;
you forgot, I'm always to thine ownself ...