The Boy who has lived

For hundred of years

Sneaks silently

Watching my tears

Though I have wept

Those secrets well kept

I put on a false smile

Hoping it would be worth my while

I sing tales of lost love

To my two little pups

As candle light dimly glows

The boy from the window glows

Quietly watches
Drinking every word I spill

I tell tales of Pirate Kings

Sing the song

The Sirens sing

Dance the dance

Of the Fairy Queen

Chant the Chant

Of Chief NeverGreen

I map the stars

So I can go

To the place I’ll never grow

Soon the pups are fast asleep

I wander to the window

Where I must weep

Tomorrow I grow up

Leave the life I love

Follow rules and rhyme

Be proper all the time

Hide the real me

That’s who I am to be

The wind brushes by

As I begin to cry

Snow falling at my feet

The window makes a crush

A hooded figure makes a dash

A shadow goes back in the night

Floating in mid-flight

Though it was unheard

And unseen

Yet it occurred to me

That I was not alone

Pulling the window back open

I quickly returned to my tears

The boy from the window heard

The sorrow sings of a blue bird

A feeling he never felt before

Lead him through my window door

A bright lead him through

What it was I had to knew

Looking for what was lost

Came at such a cost

The boy dashed

The figure fell

There was a bash

And the boy prevailed

In all of the confusion

I thought it was an illusion

I was not sure

It by in a blur

A hit there

A crash here

To much of my surprise

The pups did not raise an eye

They were resting their heads

Asleep in their beds

When the battle was through

There wasn’t one boy but two

By the tip of the toe

He held his foe

The puppeteer regained his strings

The hooded figure sighed in defeat

And without skipping a beat

The first boy tried attaching

Him to his feet

He tried a bar of soap

A little toy boat

Even a doll named lavender green

He fell with a huff

Still trying to be tough

But I knew he sadly sing

When he noticed my stare

He laid quietly there

Wishing to remain unseen

Putting on my smile

We stared for a smile

As the tears on his cheeks gleaned

He quickly stood

Got as close as he could

I felt his breath on my cheek

Then in a circle he creeped

He touched my hair

As if I would not care

His touch was light

Unlike the brutal fight

He acted as if I was a pearl

Had the fool never seen a girl?

His eyes grew bright

As he jumped and took flight

Whisking around the room

Then his face grew dim

As he fell back

Grabbing his dark faced twin

With very little hope

He grabbed the rope

Tieing he to him

When victory came

His efforts were in vain

As he slipped away

I asked what was wrong

He said his shadow was gone

And only he was to blame

Scrambling to my feet

And without skipping a beat

I told the stranger to leave

Ridiculous I yell

As the tears began to swell

He seemed perplex

On what happened next

As I motioned him to go

He looked at me

With uncertainty

And said

This had never happened before

I looked away

As the night grew gray

The boy began to disappear

But before he left

And because I’m not deaf

I heard him mutter a phrase

“Tomorrow you grow up

Leave the life you love

To follow rules and rhyme

To be proper all the time

Hide the real me

That’s who you are to be”

With that he was gone

I resumed to my sad song