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The King and The Queen both had a position, with subjects of value though neither would listen.
Where once they were vast and lived with the seasons, they came to stand still in their disagreements.

The king sent out warriors with righteous intentions, but the queen doused them in oil and bombed them in trenches.
When a diplomat was sent forth her archers impaled him, but deep in the night a spy got through to her walls and was able to scale them.

With certain advantage the king waited for word, but months had gone by and still nothing was heard.
He noticed his halls and how they felt drafty, with the presence of cold and the absence of laughing.
And his quarrel seemed far for he remembered a time and a reason, in step with the tides, to change with the seasons.

It was time to take leave, his mind had been made, he dressed as a beggar and appointed the chamberlain.
Then stepped away from his throne into the world he’d abandoned where he met with the people to till and cultivate their lands.
He ate at their hearths and heard of their stories, and met with their maiden’s in pleasure exploring.

He lived as a beggar, he lived as a king, and in the course of his travels there was opening
to simple truth that was not a position, to help and to love, to learn to listen.

After years of such travel he came to a castle, the beggar gained access now subject and vassal.
Though vassal to whom was yet to be seen, for the spy he had planted recognized his king.
And thought this a ruse, an elaborate scheme, and with his espionage ladders placed the king near to the queen.

With whispers passed weapons, a method to kill her, but the king knelt down before her and she gave him a silver.
Then she told him of her kingdom it’s splendor and pillars, he told her his story of earth and of tillers.
Then in her eye he saw glimmer that same spark of remembering that he’d had years ago before his own ramblings.

Took leave of his queen to return to his home, his chamber of ice, his prison of stone.
But he was no longer burdened by the weight of his throne.
His position forgotten, once king, once beggar, now traveller unknown.

A decree he decried to tear down the walls, to free what’s inside and raise all the halls
then with crumbling and pyers brought ruin to old pillars, and upon their ashes he laid the queens silver

Then set forth again a traveller in fashion through seasons and stars with no fear of fates rations
and when again he returned to his once trenched and former leasing he was heartened to find the last castle gone missing
and in the ruin, amid broken down and crumbling pillars; a promise in coin, for there lay the queens silver.

Once king, once beggar who travelled the world, took up the silver to go find the girl.
Once queen, now gone, onward the vassal and onward the pawn.

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from When I Held The Blue Jewel Of My Heart, released September 15, 2015

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