Slowly lightly she creeps in stealthily
Her claws around the pane
Skin rough like the moon she slides
Her heavy belly over the flagstones
Breaths pushing ancient lungs she
Is the wind wheezing gently over sweetgrass
She is the first smile a girl makes
She is hope knowing the sun shines to her again
In the quivering morning
Light stretching sleepy limbs in rays over her shell
They crackle and giggle in fae trickles
Falling with the dust as she slowly
Lightly
Grasps the stones below her
Moving the very planet as she crawls
Smelling dew in air so crisp it bites
And she gasps icicles down her throat
She blinks the tears away
And she is become a river
On feet and earth holds her as she holds her back
Rooting deep as she steps
Lightly
Growing around the boulders they throw at her
And she is cracking them through to crystalled centers
Leaving petals in her wake carrying
Everything
For everyone
And she is heavy with their weight
Yet she steps
Lightly
A Burd in Flight 