The Resting Dancer

Like a tired dancer,

her silken skirt drooping, 

after leaping, jumping and turning,

she hangs her head down.

The smile on her face, 

of such perfect chiselling

drops away into a long-faced pout

turning dark yellow with sorrow.

Once strong and muscled limbs

become thin and green,

cause of low health,  limbs connected

just by the thinnest purple veins.

To the outside,

the petite Nodding Geebung

seems so sad to leave behind

such a promising, flowering future.

But only she knows

that resting, that leaving behind

that beautiful bright future

will make her happy as sunlight and free as the wind.