She Only Wants To Be Held {Rondeau}

Holding herself, another day has gone by,
She takes her wings; she only wants to fly.
Many tries to smile with broken frowns,
Falling continuously to the ground;
Her future in her heart, she must deny.

She's not running to be by your side,
Because there are tears finally in her eyes;
Roses cry and nightingales sound-
...She only wants to be held.

Stars gaze at a lonely sight by the sky,
As this girl sits alone tonight to die-
Nothing can catch what's fallen to the ground,
She can't pick up this sadly smiling frown.
Finally fallen, she sits tonight to cry-
...She only wants to be held.

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A Rondeau is a French form, 15 lines long, consisting of three stanzas: a quintet, a quatrain, and a
sestet with a rhyme scheme as follows: aabba aabR aabbaR. Lines 9 and 15 are short - a
refrain (R) consisting of a phrase taken from line one. The other lines are longer (but all of the
same metrical length).