A pre-Labor Day Poem

The Day of the Knights of Labour
a modern allegory (1894 - 1997)


the weekend the Princess died
the Queen abdicated
her throne to the King
who reluctantly took it

with a reclusive King
and an absent Queen
the Kingdom fell
into turmoil

the Queen returned
from her travels
to find her castle overthrown
and the King dispossessed

without her power
or her throne
the Queen becomes a peasant
in the Court of the King

a lady in waiting
pretending one day
she will be recognized
as the Queen she is

a Lifetime passes
before she realizes she lives
in a Democracy and votes
herself free after four years

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