Ordinarily
For rhead
Ordinarily, her head
is in the clouds.
It lassos the birds and
darts between fantasies,
and she's Dreamy, Dreamy, Dreamy -
and she won't come down for anything.
.
(Not even for you.)
(Especially not for the Baron.)
.
When she leaves, she leaves you with a Kiss
and a Promise and a tittering little laugh,
and you have a terrible feeling that
you will never
see
her
again.
.
And when she comes home again, her head is farther than the clouds -
it perches on tails of comets,
swings on the stars,
rockets through the atmosphere -
and she's Dreamy, Dreamy, Dreamy,
but there is something about her eyes
that makes you think she's horrified.
.
(You ask, but she only shakes her head.)
.
(Ordinarily, her feet are on the ground -
but now she stays in her palace in the sky
and refuses Reality,
and she Dreams, Dreams, Dreams
of Dark Forests and the Nightmares that happen there.)
.
[Battleship Challenge: E9 - "You're usually in the clouds," he said. "But today you're in outer space. Are you ill?", JF, Marina by Carlos Ruiz Zafon]
[Monthly Drabble-A-Thon: Helena Ravenclaw]
[Twelve Days of Christmas Style Challenge: Five Era fics - Founders Era (2/5)]
[Call It Heads or Tails Challenge: Heads - write a poem]
[Globetrotter Drabble Competition: Magna Carta - write about the Founders Era]
