Wingless Poem by Edith Niemeyer

Wingless Lily of the Valley

[Verse 1]
She walks where moonlight touches stone,
Yet never walks the path alone,
Willow whispers brush her hair,
Like wings that once were waiting there.

Little bells of ivory white
Bow their heads beneath the night,
She gathers what the silence leaves—
A thousand dreams beneath the trees.

[Pre-Chorus]
No wings upon her shoulders lie,
Still something in her learns to fly.
Not from earth—
But through it all,
She blooms where quiet teardrops fall.

[Chorus]
Wingless Lily of the Valley,
Where the moon meets mountains tall,
She doesn't need the sky to carry
What was never meant to fall.

Through the willows, through the shadows,
Past the lantern's fading glow,
Wingless Lily of the Valley—
There's still somewhere left to go.

[Verse 2]
Deepest purple sweeps the ground,
Trailing little stars around,
And in her hands the lilies stay,
Small white lanterns showing way.

She wears remembrance in her eyes,
Not every tear must say goodbye.
Some become the river's gleam,
Some find their way into a dream.

[Bridge]
Perhaps her wings were never lost.
Perhaps they simply changed their form—
Into willow boughs above her,
Into shelter from the storm.

Into every bell that trembles,
Every footstep yet to be—
Perhaps the wingless learn a secret:
Flight is more than leaving free.

[Final Chorus]
Wingless Lily of the Valley,
Walk your moonlit pathway slow,
Let the mountains keep their secrets,
Let the quiet waters know.

You need no wings to cross tomorrow,
You need no sky to make you whole—
Wingless Lily of the Valley,
You were flying
in your soul.

[Outro]
And somewhere past the lantern light,
Where future touches yesterday—
A little lily bows its head...

Yet blooms
along the way.