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]