Unteathered

You joked a tether between us
Connected on the inside
Victorian overstatement
Maybe
I shall bleed

Connection severed
A rubber band stretched too far
Snaps!

Alone in my bedroom
A bed
Four walls
A ceiling
White

Windows into a world
Hot and too sunny
Everywhere so hot

I stay inside
Air conditioned
Sterile
White

Free from tethers that wound
Safe?