When times are lean,
And far between,
Remember this scene.
Two children sit,
Their fire lit,
While shadows flit.
The children (twins),
Cast out, on a whim,
Have lost their kin.
They clasp hands,
Lost in lands,
Far as the sands,
Of times long lost.
They feel this cost.
The boy, he cries,
"Please, don't leave me yet!"
His sister replies,
"Jack, don't fret,
For where' ere I be,
I'm still here, you see."
She taps his heart,
And says, "Never to part."
Tears, they stain,
The girl is never seen again.
But when times are lean,
Love far between,
Remember this scene.
Boy forgets,
And his sister lets
Him get
So far away,
Enough for him to say
"I don't remember
My fair Ember."
Till one December,
The ice cracks,
And he lacks,
The heat of love,
He is alone,
But saves his own,
The youngest,
And littlest.
Man in the Moon,
Watches, for soon,
Jack's lost the choice,
Children hear not his voice.
Guardian he must be,
For by our legends' laws, see,
Jack will find,
The life he'd never known.
He was blind,
Now he's shown.
So, when times are lean,
Favors far between,
Remember this scene.
His sister, lost,
Jack's fight we watch,
But the thing he seeks,
He never finds,
He never finds.
His sister's path,
Away it winds,
Away it winds.
Soon Jack finds,
His sister, mind,
Wished a kind
Of whispered love,
Into life, just like a dove.
She finds Jack
So far away,
For he knows not
of the burning love
his power to sway,
a choice to make,
a path to take.
She sneaks aboard,
Off they fly,
Into the sky
They hear not a sound.
Slips around,
Forced to ground,
Now they believe,
Reunited, not remembered.
Girl is crying,
Her fire's dying
the light is fading.
"Jack, don't fret,
For where' ere I be,
I'm still here, you see."
She taps his heart,
And cries, "Never to part."
Tears, they stain.
Jack's icy heart,
It beats again!
It just starts,
And he is burning,
With his light,
And she with hers.
Quite a sight,
Now she purrs!?