Artemis

I tread a boundless earth The vines rush to adore my feet Mistress of the rare I am Up above canopies cover my stead I tempt the winds, the tide Even the sun knows not to tame me Endless is my spirit wild All around, My minions look at me with awe Oh how great they say I could be Radiant and free Yet my heart stops - leaps - throbs Of something now I cannot be Of something still I must then be A fire unfelt, a well unfilled How may then? How will then? I know not still. But this I feel I look at the stars tonight and see Gleaming diamonds of dwarfish light Away and unsure but yet I envy them. Up there they are nothing compared to me. They are hundreds while I In solitude tonight am here To cry - far away from sight Beneath the darkness, beneath the bright