MMario --

I'm glad you LIKE it :-D.

As it stands now, I think it is somewhere between 1/2 to 2/3 on its way to the resolution (as I said: like a spiral -- ending at the same point where it began, but on a different level).

It's always been a pet peeve of mine that, in nearly every fantasy for children, magic is used as a metaphor for personal power, and yet at some point the young hero grows "too old" for magic and must leave it behind.

The unspoken (but to me, all too clear) messasge is: "It is okay for children to believe in magic, and pretend they have the power to change the world," (When they really don't have much power in their daily lives). "But when they grow up, they'll have to put all those silly ideas behind them, and learn to tow the line and uphold the status quo."

The way I see it (and where I want to end the song, eventually), childhood is the time to learn about magic, as it is the time to learn about all things important and complex, but it is with the wisdom of adulthood that the true power of magic can be used to change the world for the better.