Aurora

Aurora, when will you learn to see what you've been staring at forever?
Aurora, when will you be content with all your inconsistancies?
Aurora, when will you stop fighting everything you can't control?
Aurora, when will you accept your need for emotional turmoil?
Aurora, when will you realize you don't want what you want?
Aurora, when will you sleep without dreaming of winter?
Aurora, when will you sew up the holes in your lies?
Aurora, when will you quit binding yourself in misconceptions?
Aurora, when will you forget to judge yourself by what the mirror tells you?
Aurora, when will you crack from the weight of your words?
Aurora, when will you break away from over analyzation?
Aurora, when will you tell them you don't believe what they say?
Aurora, when will you lay under the stars and forget artificial lights?
Aurora, when will you tire of writing your life and start living it?
Aurora, when will you let yourself scream?
Aurora, when will you finally use your wings for flight?
Aurora, when will you remember you're only just a girl?
Aurora, when will you graduate from static cling to lightning?

More than that

headstrong girl
her eyes infatuated with the stars
he reached out to her too late
to try to keep her on the ground
she shook him off
with a twist of her thin wrist
circled in the Pleiades

she said, they're waiting for me
and darling, I hate to disappoint
she said, I've got one dance left
and darling, I'm saving it for you
she said, you know I love you
and darling, hold me while you can

the song was slow
she laid her head on his shoulder
moonlight streaking her hair
falling in wisps from its pins
with ephemeral highlights
until she pulled away leaving him
on the other side of the bridge

she said, they're waiting for me
and darling, I hate to disappoint
she said, I've got to go now
and darling, don't hold me back
she said, I know I've been labeled
but darling, I'll always be more than that