I want to unravel you

like a ball of sky blue wool.

I want to tease away the tangles,

and the pain, so cruel.

I want to slip my fingers

into every knot of thought

and pull you free, unfettered…

And I want to be unravelled, with you,

from the self that holds me tight,

to walk, with you, my friend,

into the all-dissolving light.

This poem was arranged and performed as a song by Mary-Jane Negus in 2009 as part of Unravelling: Denmark Stories at Denmark’s Brave New Works Festival.