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An address to time and wind becomes a struggle against memory, spiritual abandonment, and the fear of being pulled into cold, sinful depths.

The repeated dare wind dare sounds defiant, but it also admits how vulnerable the speaker is to voices, shambles behind, and longing beyond. Silence is paradoxically loud, so the atmosphere presses on the body through cheek, ear, spine, ash, and frozen door. What burns between us is never named directly, which makes the closing sense of separation and guilt feel sharper.

Under the title 'Time, you have no right to my / memory', four stanzas open with the refrain 'Dare wind dare', daring the wind to 'Resemble my agony', to 'Plead that it is you I seek / When spirit has gone away', and to 'Flutter me away to the floor of the deep'. The poem ends with the single line 'Burning between us'.

The speaker first claims memory back from time, then turns the wind into a presence he can challenge, and the refrain works like a held breath at the start of each stanza. The defiance doubles as confession, since the wind is dared precisely because it can pull him toward 'the shadowed ice of terrible sin'. Leaving what burns 'between us' unnamed lets the poem read as an address to weather, absence, and a lost person at once.