I did not fall in love, I plunged into it
Head first, guided only by unseen light.
Weird faces tried to make me quit
While I smiled, waiting for my knight.

On a steed he came running, hair loose
In the winds of growth and love and pain.
He asked me to kneel, so we called a truce:
I could stand tall if safe I kept his reign.

With the face of an angel and black holes
as eyes, spilling from too many burning stars,
He kissed me with his mind, guiding souls
To their homeland, completing their memoirs.

He'd planned up beautiful lives for them,
Filled with all they needed to be peaceful.
Out of his dreams he taught me this anthem
And gave me the tools to remain faithful.

He was the Universe himself, sacred energy
Which I could only see with my mind's eye,
In the moments I walked down a reverie
When, with dirty wings, I shot across the sky.

He made my chore strong, he made me gentle,
Dressed me up in armour and sent me to battle.
He took his place in nature as the first elemental
Erased my memory of him and left me to dabble.

Now I walk around this earth, questioning
Myself, my kin and my lovers, I walk smiling.
I am guided by the unseen light of spring
With burdens too heavy for such misfit lightning.

I opened my human heart to taste the human love.
I talked myself into it, allowed it to change me,
To make me as beautiful as the mourning dove
Which then brought me heartbreak to set me free.

I was bound to create magic with kind hands.
I existed for the sake of the world, not mine,
For dancing and searching across the lands
For a way to help poor souls to stars align.

My knight kept watching from the shadows
As I felt my powers grow to carry my burdens.
But life was lonely and the grief, I suppose,
Made it harder and harder to sight the Heavens.

The mourning dove'd shown me how to fly away,
But my freedom drowned me in human tears.
My very first love marvelled at the juicy cliche
Of broken human hearts in a sky that never clears.

All alone I was, no place of my own to call home,
No person to believe in the unseen light I chased.
The mermaid in me was turning to frozen foam.
Dreams, anthem and light... now all was waste.

Human love with magical faith was what I needed
To guide the souls of universe around the palace
Of the wisest knight to ever be preceded
By beauty in the odd and kindness in the malice.

I was crazy on my own and crazy to think
I could ever be safe from anger and disbelief.
They'd been dripping from people like dark ink
From a writer's hands, with the scent of a thief.

Yes, I shattered as I took them in every time,
But I had to at least act normal, play pretend
Until, maybe, one day, in reality I found a rhyme
To fulfil me, love me, be my one, true friend.

I shattered for I didn't know where I was going,
Or how I was supposed to walk, only that I had to.
My knight gave me many gifts to keep me glowing,
But doubt and regret couldn't fit in the perfect view.

Doubt and regret were all the human me had.
I suppose so, or was there love inside, as well?
It might have been, for I was somehow still glad
To stand tall and on my sorrow to no longer dwell.

As I sang the knight's anthem to myself at night,
I knew I either needed love or a ticket to asylum.
I took one more chance and began to write
My story, tasting of tree bark and sugarplum.

Crazy, didn't I tell you? My knight made me so
And I could not refuse him, for I loved him whole.
All his secrets I so very deeply needed to know,
So I wrote myself on paper with tears and coal.

The clock had struck the hour for utter honesty,
So I write now about the unseen light with hope
I figured out the riddle set for me by His Majesty.
I'll love or break for good, I reached the end of my rope.

I did not fall in love, I plunged into it
Willingly replacing my knight for a king
At every step I tried to make myself quit
But unseen light was now on human yearning.