And She Was Gone......

She chose to walk alone,

Though others wondered why,

Refused to look before her,

Kept eyes cast upwards,

Towards the sky.

She didn't have any companions,

No need of earthly things,

Only wanted freedom,

From what she felt was 

puppet strings.

She longed to be a bird,

That she might flight away,

She pitied every blade of grass,

For planted they would stay.

She longed to be a flame,

That brightly danced alone,

Felt jealous of the steam,

That made the air it's only home.

Some say she wished too hard,

Some say she wished too long,

But we awoke one autumn day,

To find that she was gone.

The trees, they say,

stood witness,

The sky refused to tell,

But someone who had seen it,

Said the story played out well.

She spread her arms out wide,

Breathed in the break of dawn,

She just let go of all

she held.....

And then she was gone.