Challenge
Monogamy
The end-all-be-all happily ever after, or a couple of losers kidding themselves? Are we humans meant to be more like life-partnered swans, lone wolves, or rutting deer? All opinions welcome.
Dethrowned
Velvet beneath her knees
To soften
The repercussion of her reverence
Desperately hoping
Her service is sufficient
Well-penny wishes
Dissipating in their descension
Aware of concubine’s eyes
Peering through carefully cut holes
In her majesty’s portrait
Evading diversion of his gaze
For fear he too will see
And awaken to the same
Unindemnified efforts
And a jezebel brazen
Forged by the king’s sanction
An intrusion upon the royal chambers
A queen’s crown stricken
Precious tokens falling to the floor
But not before
Her heart settles into her stomach
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