The Lost Princess
The Lost Princess
I felt his susurrus
Under my feet
The world as I had known it before
Is nullified
Stranger still is
This feeling of not being quite mortified
Mortem does mean death in my language
Yet the poisonous river
Is the death personified
I am the lost princess of the Romans-
Forgotten is the most accurate description
My crime was foreseeing the future
In the water
A soothsayer
And this was before the witches
Were burnt at the stakes
I warned my father the great Caesar
That... That... His predatoriness will have a price so dear...he will pay for his life
His empire will be annihilated
He called me a whore
And drowned me in the poison green river.
He paid the price high.
He paid for his greed with his life.
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