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I am Queen 
by Ela Lourenco 

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I gaze into the distance

The desert dust rising into the hot air

As the sky weeps into the desert.

The tribal women wail and tear at their hair

while you are lowered into your final resting place.

And so begins the ten years of mourning.

Grieving their King, the saviour, the protector…

I sit alone on the throne we shared.

I alone shed no tears as the hot and humid earth

Takes your body.

You were no King, you were barely a man.

Everything about you was a lie.

You thought I did not see

The evil that lurked within.

That I did not hear the whimpering

Of the abused in the dark of the night.

I am Queen.

I saw everything.

I felt everything.

My people will never know

But I am the true saviour

I did what needed done

An none shall ever know…

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Fiction © Copyright Ela Lourenco
Image courtesy of Pixabay.com.

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