Within the cage

A young girl
Held within an iron cage
Her broken voice singing
Of pain and suffering.

She,who has the power
To split the sky,
To shake the the world,
Lay alone, shackled
within the cage.

That young girl,
Forced to sing
For the amusement
Of the lord of the land.

Her voice,
Each syllable she sang,
Knows only of grief
And of darkness.

She longed to see the sky.
She longed to see the world.
All she ever knew was
The cold, unforgiving cage.

One day,
A servant of the castle
Heard the girl's voice.
He followed the melancholic sound
And found himself in front of
The Forbidden Room.

Upon entering the room,
The boy's eyes laid upon the cage
And within, the girl in rags.
Listening to her hymn of sadness,
He sympathized with her.

From that day on,
The boy would visit the girl.
He would talk to her
About the world outside.
He listened to her songs.
And he fell in love with her.

Ever since that day,
The girl would wait for the boy.
She would listen to him,
Of stories about the world.
She crafted new songs for him.
And she fell in love with him.

The boy vowed that one day,
He would free her.
He wanted to show her the azure sky.
He wanted her to gaze upon the vast ocean.
But mostly, he wanted her to see
The sun, the moon and the stars.

Listening to his vows,
The girl smiled, for the first time.
After meeting the boy,
She now knows happiness.
She believed that with him close,
All was and would be well.

As with the gain of her happiness,
There is an equivalent price to pay.
The price she had to give,
Was the only thing she had.

Her love.

The lord, after finding out that
The boy was meeting the girl,
Decided to punish her.
By spilling the boy's blood
Right in front of her eyes.

Enraged,
She sang.
A song filled with anger,
Filled with denial,
A song of destruction.

The castle crumbled.
The country rumbled.
The lord, now lay murdered.
Upon the floor he laid, bloodied.

The castle lay ruined,
The girl, save within her cage.
For the first time she saw the moon.
"This was nothing like you said.
The moon, is gazing upon me so sadly."
She whispered, tears in her eyes.

She reached out for the boy's hand,
Flinching at the lack of warmth
That she was always used to.
"If it had to end like this,
Would not it better then,
If we had not met?"

For the first time,
The girl experienced loss,
Sadness,
Hopelessness,
All of that, from within the cage.