RIP

The Name of a Star

The Name of a Star

A thousand feathers fell from the creature's wings

as the fire on the wind scorched them

and burned them away into ashes.

The scarf wound around her neck

was like a rope hiding the scars marring her skin

where they'd tried to choke her life away.

But she had refused to die inside.

A thousand tears rained inside of her,

the power of her love undying

until she was broken, her forgiveness mourning.

The bandages wound around her wrists

softened the cuffs' scraping,

where they'd cut her flesh where she'd been restrained.

But she had refused to trade her soul

for something unkind.

A hundred whispers begged her to commit violence,

calling out to her from within,

pleading desperately for sweet revenge.

But the straight jacket she wore

kept her in control

so that she would not fall from her sky,

not ruin, or drown, or die by devouring their lie.

Millions of eyes watched her from the dark

seeing not what threatened to rise inside,

what dared to break her, what she despised.

She strapped them down, the explosions of anger,

and she turned them inward,

becoming stronger.

The monsters saw it, what threatened to rise,

and they ran in search of a place to hide.

Singing the tunes of tortured souls,

her voice rang of the songs of the yearning

and carried out the burning in her soul.

Her eyes holding the honor of Truth,

she burned away their lies and their darkness

until they fled into the night--

to hide among their demons.

Her eyes lifted to her god,

and the Betrayer lost her

when a thousand feathers grew again

as she sang of the glory of living.

As she sang, the skies that had once been velvet black,

lit only by the burning specks of the heaven's distance,

changed with an abysmal syncronization,

of peaceful, forgiving oblivion.

Light began to bloom from it,

and the demons fled

as the fear within them bred.

The creature awaited the days that evil would die,

awaited the gates where she would fly

and earn her star a name in the sky.

6.14.2010