Queen of Swords

Poetic autobiography

Queen of Swords

They took me from the darkness
and set me up against the hordes
Six dire moves across the chessboard
and they crowned me queen of swords

I have been the guest of valkyries
in their eyries built of bone
I have walked the haunted hallways
where the Grail King makes his home

But of all that I remember
of all they say that cannot be
I know best a silver tower
among the stars, beside the sea

And when I return again in Twilight
to the Night from which I came
I will be forgotten by the Morning
and no one there will know my name.