The Reckoning

He was afraid that she’d lash out at him
As to her face he said goodbye.

It was all that she could do for them
That she didn’t plead, wail, or cry.

Instead she asserted what she believed
As he let time’s faith bleed away.

The most that he would give to her
Was distance in prayer’s serenade.

But while she struggled to keep control
Of her mind while demons raged,

She watched abroad on Netflix
A man who’d become as a mage.

And when she distanced from the scene,
She realized that she had been wrong

To forsake that which truly rang
In her heart’s song – all along.

And while a wreck on journey’s return,
Bedraggled and soul worn through,

As she watched the clouds carrying her home,
She realized what she must do.

She cast aside conformity’s
Dictates that choked her spirit,

Acknowledging that if she were to reclaim,
Then in life, she would have to live it!