Possession
You have stolen my ears and filled my mouth with ash.
My hands and feet are your servants running errands
through shifting labyrinths, according to your whim.
On every cell of my body your name is stamped.
You have buried my feelings in an unmarked grave
beneath the tower. Even the dead don’t go there.
Gemma Harland is a writer and artist who lives with her wonderful, crazy family in West Yorkshire. Her poems have appeared in several publications and she is currently working on a pamphlet, to be called Scorpions in the Sugar.