Challenge
Challenge of the Week XCIX
Kingdom Come. Democracy has not always existed. Before there was democracy, there were kings, queens, and monarchs. The setting is a land governed by a monarchy. Be the monarch tyrannical or benevolent, they rule absolutely and cast a long shadow. You can write from within the walls of the palace, or from without.
Fiction or non-fiction, poetry or Prose.
Feed Me Power
My shadow scares
off the ones who bow before.
A silk red cape
drags behind my leisured walk
down the widened staircase
of my kingdom.
Black and blue
language
rolls off my tongue
and shatters your kneecaps;
collapsing you before my empowered stance.
The trivial level of love
that drains from my heart
stems around these walls
and keeps the windows shut.
These vines protect me
from the outside shine
that melts my skin
into Royal Sewage.
My palace,
my mind,
my soul,
devours yours
from your twin-sized mattress
for the safety
of my cherry-wood framed
California Queen.
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