In boundless cold with a fire in heart
Sits a shadow of love and pain
Some frozen tears, melted strength and dozen false smiles is her only gain.
A warrior of time, she lost her battle.
Alas! she is trapped in the realm of whims and constraints
Though human she still is, vulnerable and foolish
But her soul still pious, tormented yet unbroken
Waits night and day…
Not for her knight in shining armour
For long she has grown above nanny’s tales
But for a breeze of joy and relief that will sweep her over into the arms of Father
Long had she suffered for this day to arrive
But it ends here, where it matters the most
She has set on the voyage to explore the share of earthly divinity
For beneath the stars, through the mist will come her ray of sunshine that will cure the greyness of her smiles
And let her shadow escape into out of the dark
For now she will cherish the fragrance of her dwindling days
With those rosy mornings will she rise and take her leap,


     *…..The leap of Life