Tread Lightly

The girl dances a pristine ballet en pointe with one black shoe.

There is no music and the vast stage swallows up her petite and frail frame,

 

 the dark enveloping the single spotlight tracing her rehearsed, delicate movements.

 

The girl is called Tread Lightly.

 

 She thinks. She thinks of her silver music box, the one with detailed engravings and astounding craftsmanship.

 

Ever turning is Tread lightly: The girl with one black shoe. Ever turning like the ballerina in the silver music box.

 

But the girl is freer than the ballerina in the box. She is not enslaved by silver bindings and painted beauty.

 

Unrestricted she leaps and soars all through the dark theatre, leaving the scrutiny of the spotlight behind on the stage.

 

Her arms thin out and expand as they are replaced by blazing orange wings with orange feathers.

 

AND the girl became a phoenix, leaving behind only a trail of smoke, and one black shoe.

Reviews

[Glen Yumang Manese]

THE BALLERINA ON THE STAGE AND THE THE ONE IN THE MUSIC BOX...AS SHE FLASHBACKS IN HER MIND...AS SHE PERFORMS THE DANCE FOR REAL AND NO RESTRICTIONS...IN TURN BECOMES THE BALLERINA THAT ONCE WAS JUST A BALLERINA SPINNING IN A SILVER BOX...

[Ciara Di Salle]

Haha yes! That is true!

[Glen Yumang Manese]

good to read this one...good day...

[Ciara Di Salle]

Thank you very much :)

[Glen Yumang Manese]

you're welcome...