queen euthanasia

by darkbane

queen euthanasia in the kingdom of woe

sits on a throne of her own sorrow

the skies above her are dark and the land is scarred

and death stands beside her in a pale garb

and she says to the skeleton man

"reaper, tell me what's your plan for me?"

and death looks down at her with empty holes so hollow

and he says,

"child queen, beauty of the earth and sea

this shouldn't you to know

for my design is mystery

and my command is stone

but if you need an answer, girl

you're better off making up one on your own"

and euthanasia goes into her study of the unknowns

where once her father sat and read her tales of 'long time agoes'

"but now he's dead," she says to herself

"and so is the kingdom that he gave to me"

and her father's ghost is known

to be seen sometimes in his chair

weeping uncontrollably

and the queen looks out on the land from a dusted window

she sees the the empty homes with no fathers to their name

just maidens made old with little children so alone

all wondering where the days of harmony have gone

euthanasia turns away from the wrought she's made

fighting off her brother in the damned lands

who wanted the crown but was denied his place

and so went and made an alliance with evil

now his war has brought his sister much pain

and her kingdom much more

now death follows the queen into her chambers

where she wants to sleep in her silk and never wake

and he says to her,

"euthanasia of woe, i have a proposition from your brother

if you'll hear it from me

it could set you and your kingdom free

but much more than likely

it'll make your brother king

and doom the land worse than before"

lying on her sheets euthanasia responds,

"come and tell me, spectre, how this all can end

i've grown so tired of this war and this land

and all i want is to sleep

is to sleep

so, yes, come tell me how my brother wishes me

to give him what he wants the most"

and death, he told her of her brother's proposal

of how she could die quietly and because of this

he would have the kingdom that was rightly his

queen euthanasia wrapped herself away in cloth with a moan

and said to her pale slim messanger,

"please, demon, come and take it away

take away this life i've wasted

better i end this tragedy now

lest my brother take more vengeance"

then death, he took from his wan robe

a knife so long and thin and silver

decorated in the native tongue of the land

it said,

"euthanasia, a quick death for thee"

and death came near her bed

with tears coming out his empty head

he said,

"truly you're a great queen

to end this suffering of your land

i'm sorry i must end you but i promise to tend to

your soul for all eternity"

and with her eyes shut tight, she was just waiting to die

she said,

"i'm not that noble, good man

i'm just trying to find some peace for me

i'm just trying to get some sleep"

and with those final words death stuck the blade in her

and she let out a groan

and her blood ran down see-through like water

and the land was drowned in her

then death took himself on the wind and returned to her brother

who could never enter euthanasia's land

for woe sunk under her dying pool

and made a new land which he could never hope to glimpse