Love hath wrought the chains that bind me
To your soul and to your heart
My chains are unbreakable
To save me, let me fall
To help me, let me sink
To love me, bring me up from the depths of despair
Hate me or love me,
My chains are unbreakable
I am forever bound to your heart
For my one and only
I am bound to your heart
They lay together, as close as their situation will allow. She strains above him, muscles stretched taut as she struggles to keep the poison from touching his skin. A snake slithers across the decoying branch, forever coiled around it, never able to free itself. Its only function is to to drip venom freely from its protruding fangs.
The man lying beneath her, her husband, still had wounds from the times she wasn’t so quick with dumping the heavy bowl she held. How in agony he screamed. That was the only time any noise escaped him. During the times of peace he was quiet, never speaking. The only sounds that permeated the cave were their