The conclusion

Fire breathes and moves
Under a cold, gray sky
The music sets the mood
and she lifts up her eyes

the day last year she decided
to let go, and hold on
she was told to give up. indecisive
the girl slowed down just to speed on

holding hands and skipping the years
to maturity, to apathy
forgetting all the things she supposedly feared
the woman. she lost her empathy

a younger picture of her mother
stuck in slow motion
sped up to real time to smother
a piece of song, commotion

a pirate stole her jewel
one of beauty the other terror
in dire circumstances dear, you were a fool
but just for a moment, to receive the better
half of you
laugh at past mistakes.

she sits on that faded couch
rain pouring down her cheeks
what he thinks are candy raindrops, he tries to catch
but she gets up and gets away from hurt and the rest

the fire is dying
or so the woman girl thinks
her heart was set on flying
but her mind never could work out the kinks

one day a Man came to
give her magic wings
irrepressibly delights she flings
arms about Him and comes to
the conclusion

she missed Him as a little girl
sitting on His knee was not the fashion
But now the woman as a girl
forgets all that and remembers her passion

the music set the mood
and her heart was as light as a feather
despite the weather, she finally understood
that all that time
she was never tethered.