Penelope Graves

The faintest star slips out of sight

Though she won't go quietly into the night

And breaks from her course, intending to fall

And runs 'cross the sea, by the earth she's been called

She dashed toward the shore in the dark of new moon

The sand is the alter, the land is her groom

But alas when her feet came to meet the dry ground

A jilting betrayal as her heels settled down

And her name

Drifted away

When she was tamed

And so she became

Penelope Graves

The rocks gashed like razors, grass cut like knives

Her uncovered feet were draining her life

So she stole from her wings the silk for a pair

Of slippers to cover her skin bruised and bare

She walked among wonders a star never could

But the shoes tore like bandages covered in blood

In agony crippled, accursed in a field

She wept like a sparrow who's wings wouldn't heal

And her name

Drifted away

When she was tamed

And so she became

Penelope Graves

Hearing her cries

A man raced to her side

In awe of this star

A heartbreak sublime

Wingless and hopeless

He brought her a gift

The strength in his arms

And the spirit to lift

Her up

She forfeit her wings and gained a groom

But where can she stand when the earth is her doom

So her new lover covered her soles with a pair

Of leather and stitches with laces to wear

And her name

Drifted away

When she was tamed

And so she became

Penelope Graves

Drifted away

When she was tamed

And so she became

Penelope Graves

Drifted away

When she was tamed

And so she became

Penelope Graves

Drifted away

When she was tamed

And so she became

Penelope