The princess stood in her high tower
Looking out the wide window
Tears falling towards the earth
Like a statue in silence
Nothing but her heart spoke.
The dragon circled the tower
Heart-wrenching cries echoing in the night.
Its wings hid the moon from the earth
Its body span wider than the sky
Shaking like a leaf in front of the silent tears.
The princess whispered to leave
The dragon begged to try
Her shadow left the window
The wings continued batting
In steady devastating waves.
Another night ends
Another night begins.
No prince will come, the dragon snarled.
No prince will come, the princess confessed.
The tears continued and the whispers didn't falter
Leave leave leave
They repeated.
Never never never
The dragon chanted in answer.
Another wall builds
Another pain is.
The princess rests on the windowsill.
She lets her fingers reach towards the sky
Like the tips of them can caress that cloud of white in ink.
Never come to me, she whispers with a smile.
The white cloud shakes and turns
Gets closer to the tower to rest
Stops on seeing the fingers longing
And the eyes pleading.
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No
It roars in defiance.
And the eyes wilt with a fond pain
My dragon fits the sky.
The trembling lips breathe
The sky in your eyes
The sky in your arms
The agitated wings insist.
The princess turns to leave
Another sleepless night
Another window draped by a white wing.
The princess traces the narrow room
Boxes stacked in one corner
Closed to not be opened.
A bed unmade and messy between wide-awake nights
A window so so wide
And no door in sight.
She sighs and closes her eyes
Another night nears
Another night nears.
I can fly us away
The dragon pleads.
My sky is yours
My wings are yours
The dragon states with a desperate air.
All it earns it is a fond laugh.
Some are made for the wide skies
I am made for the windowsills.
My dragon is strong
My dragon is smart
My dragon's sky is the dragon's alone.
The princess recites what she always does
With a serene expression and a dull gaze
The dragon breaks in another rejection
And from the shards
Comes another night.
The princess's tears water the grounds
And from the tears, flowers bloom under her sated eyes.
The princess's room is narrow and her window is wide
The boxes are closed and they hide
A door locked
A door unlocked
A door to a woman that only ever gets close to window sills.
The dragon weeps on the tower's high
And the tears flood the grounds and drown
The flowers that were meant to bloom.
The princess gazes up with a small smile
And whispers to a distraught love
The sky would be much kinder to you
Than my heart ever would.
The weeping rises in misery and sound
And the princess sighs with the delicacy of another end.
The flowers bloom
The flowers drown
The tears don't stop
And another night comes.