Loyalty

I am held by chains called ‘love’

And bound by shackles of ‘fear’.

Tears seem to be my only escape

By my freedom is stripped from me.

I am afraid of what comes next,

Because I am so fragile to break.

A wrong word,

A single cruel deed

Can break me in half,

Shattering my bonds into dust.

My binds of fear and love

Consume me

Scathing my skin with welts and scars

My captor no longer frightens me.

I am loyalty

And I am the weakest

                 the strongest

                 the truest

                        of us all.

                                                            Emilia