She offered him her star.
Carefully laid in finest tissue cloud,
Wrapped it in the rainbow
And ribboned it with sun.

She traveled far,
Jumping through the rings of Saturn,
In an endless circle
Did she run.

There he stood at center
With arms held close about himself
Allowing her no entrance
Into his universe.
Caring nothing for the distance
She so willingly had traversed.

With arms held close about himself,
He couldn’t feel
The fervent beating of her heart
With eyes shut tight,
He scorned her gift.
His gravity too much to bear,
Her orbit fell apart.

Away she spun
Into infinity
Looking for a place to hang her star.
Unwittingly
She came across
What she had lost
And found a new welcome
In the old place called home.

You gave me the chance
To read a page
I’d never read before
You beckoned me to dance
With feet that barely
Touched the floor.
You opened worlds of fantasy
Where I shared life with fairies,
In realms of Lords and Kings;
But the tale was written for a child
And when I sprouted woman’s wings
You closed the book
And bade me take my leave,
Whilst you went on to other things.