Princess Sarah
Your chosen name was Sarah
So named many moons ago
Nursing my growing belly
Consumed by the moonlight glow
Watching above twinkling starlight
So planned whole life with you
Thinking before you were born
As Sarah inside me grew
You were my total secret
Was conceived in passions flame
Dearest Sarah I loved you
From deciding on your name
My Sarah, Princess Sarah
So saying under my breath
Could no longer hide my shame
To stay would be our death
Many miles I walked that day
Until tired I tumbled down
Faint blackness closed in on me
Woke to dog jumping around
I was carried to a barn
Caring hands tend to my hurt
Shouted out Princess Sarah
Thought I would get just desert
All the while they quietened me
Soothing words urged my repose
Three months later I was birthed
Sarah with sweet button nose
Welcomed home as family
With Sarah too on the farm
When Princess Sarah was two
My worries brought to alarm
Recognised some visitors
Standing beyond the gateway
Turning one looked towards me
With relief they walked away
Princess Sarah at my breast
Reached to wipe away my tear
Nothing further ever said
I worked on year by year
One midsummer, a pageant
May queen to be elected
Gathering in Jackson’s field
My Sarah was selected
She was dancing around the maypole
Sixteen and willowy tall
All eyes on her lovely face
Sarah was gone by nightfall
Princess Sarah was abducted
Bad men carried out this deed
Searched far and wide hereabouts
Note arrived, read “your bad seed”
My dearest Princess Sarah
All in turmoil senses lost
My sin has caught up with me
to my Princess Sarah’s cost
I prayed for deliverance
Then came an amazing sight
My darling Princess Sarah
Glimmering in the moonlight
Her dark eyes looked into mine
With her hair all gone awry
Streaming tears blurred my vision
To blink I tried to deny
But within a fatal blink
Sarah had disappeared
No stirring of the night air
Now so sadly as I feared
So up to bed I then did tread
Sank exhausted on the stair
In dreams Princess Sarah comes
How I long to hold her close
One day it will be final
When I too am in repose
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