The light in Hero’s window went out
so the light in Hero’s lover’s eyes would follow.
He couldn’t get to her
without the night light as guidance
so Leander (the lover in question)
soon drowned.

Hero, one smart cookie,
figured this out and,
finding one good tragedy deserves another,
jumped out her tower window
to crash in the waters below.

The story ends
with no survivors
but a nameless witness
left to tell the tale
going forward to later generations
and maybe give people
a different kind of sense
as to what a hero could be.