ne'er spoken.

[softly-spoken]

To feel anything deranges you. To be seen feeling anything strips you naked. In the grip of it pleasure or pain doesn’t matter. You think what will they do what new power will they acquire if they see me naked like this. If they see you feeling. You have no idea what. It’s not about them. To be seen is the penalty.

Anne Carson, Red Doc>

[softly-spoken]

I stole a glance up at the stars  and felt ashamed of the tears in my eyes,  like a child fearing some punishment.  But the stars they just looked down at me and asked: 

Little wolf, where have you been? 

And I wept.  I stood in the dark and cold and wept beneath the stars,  and the monster I am,  I felt more at home than in my mother’s arms.  I’ve been a child of the west wind all my life,  and the west wind, she never forgot me.  This place howls to me, 

it is a part of me.

[softly-spoken]

he speaks poetry to my skin that only he can hear

[softly-spoken]

I felt him melt under the pressure of my kiss

and in that moment I knew

he would give me everything, if only I would ask

[softly-spoken]

you are the spirit of the west,   

you are soft as a cool breeze in the valley on a summer day,   

and as fierce as the blazing heat that licks the valley clean.

[softly-spoken]

softly spoken ;   my two natures    reached out    to make peace with one another.

[softly-spoken]

trapped animal,    caged animal,    why do you bite the walls?