Fortress

She was a fortress Rock solid, determined To stand strong Against any attack But she turned the music up While her king was in his counting house It was far too loud She danced on her walls Flaunted herself, taunted Received attention, even unwanted Aware and unaware of her power He was a fierce and beautiful warrior Who appeared without warning And from an unnatural height Dropped word bombs To explode her heart And with her head He shot arrows of love in many tongues Until her walls began to crack She let his fire seep in And penetrate her It lit her up and reminded her Of how cold and lonely it could be Within her walls She let herself burn out of control And almost burned down her entire kingdom Meanwhile He was waging his own war In his head She, his conquest Was a just a side attraction A diversion to avert his attention An escape from the anguish Of losing his queen His castle in ruins, his heart shattered Winning her love, Was not enough To reignite his soul From the warmth of her walls She felt him retreating Taking with him his weapons, his army of words His declarations of love She could no longer see his flames Only darkness Where his love once lived Alone, abandoned, cold She calculated and assessed What remained from the rubble of his (brief) love She saw it was not too late for her She looked inside her heart Saw her worth And decided to save herself To recruit the troops, line them up, do the work, Put Humpty Dumpty’s wall back together again Re-build it wider, taller, reinforce it with steel And turn the music down