Merry Sisters of Fate --- Watcher Prompt Contest and poem

You might not be familiar with The Merry Sisters of Fate, but then again.... maybe you do know them (just not on this site).

The Merry Sisters of Fate are three authors:  Maggie Stiefvater, Brenna Yovanoff, and Tessa Gratton.   And, they have this marvelous site where they share their writing and all sorts of fantastic things.    In honor of their new blog home, they have a small contest running  --- to write something original based on this prompt, and then share it.

I did this once before, and it felt really good to compose something.   In fact, I might try to do this more often, just to stretch my writing a bit.....       I thought I'd try again, so here's my contribution:

Moving past you

“The Turret Stairs” by Frederic Burton

    in this passage,

time slows

           as  I steal as much

of an embrace as this

      narrow stair allows.

But for a promise made when I was a girl,

I would be free to be yours, not

              trapped,

smothered in the bell jar of my marriage.

All the gifts in the kingdom cannot

     undo the ache in my heart

for you.

Even as I am fixed firmly in my station,

I dream

            of climbing from the high tower,

            down to your embrace and the promises

of distant shores.