Emmie Writes

Anne did not want Henry 

He wrote to her

He pursued her 

He captured her 

And when he had no more use for her 

When after those thousand days his attention drifted elsewhere 

She said “I have come here to die” and so she did

I did not want you just as she did not want Henry 

You wrote to me

You pursued me 

You captured me

And when you had no more use for me

When after those hundred days you no longer wanted me 

I wished to die and yet I didn’t 

And by your hand 

I am the specter that haunts myself