Damsel In The Tower, Jester In The Wake

Damsel in the tower
Maiden so fair
Burdened and in distress
Subject to all forms of care
Toils of a life too hard
Bending with existence’s wear
His Majesty’s will enforced
Beyond what she should need bear

The Jester, Entertainer, Know-it-all
Saw the lady but knew not her plight
He hid his own woes of being
Existence’s weight a daily fight
Drawn to her against his will
Bending his thoughts all day and night
An invisible pull that turned his dreams
Fantasy of forbidden, union of might

He was guarded by his own ruling queen
Ordering his every day and night so black
Each moment another Atlas challenge
Weight of all things on his failing back
Wanting to escape his spiral of despair
Will to break dead promises was lack
He knew that she was the one
He knew the vision, and risked that track

Truth then came to the clown so glum
The Lady Fair was in fact in pursuit too
Not just he felt the relentless draw
Fate was about to throw their lives askew
Though a violation of all his beliefs
This was the path me must pursue
Destiny met him when least expected
To follow this path he would now do

Stories of past they each exchanged
Locking eyes saw their fate was to share
Those eyes exchanged the truths unspoken
More still untold the hearts laid bare
Dreams of future and escape from prisons
To run on paths to worlds without care
Jester though he might be, seeming weak
Determined to save from peril his damsel fair

Together they plotted their escape from want
In each other they could find strength
Holding hands and sharing many a kiss
Desire for more they vowed to fill at length
Healing was needed to overcome evil that assailed
The damsel would be attacked in strength
The power than imprisoned would not yield
But would fight escape at long length

The clown to had prisons and burden to shed
Weight of life, responsibilities behind which he hid
Promises he had made and was want to break
But long which had perished despite his bid
Imprisoned by vows and cares and lack of will
He finally had a chance of restraint to be rid
To this end, to be freed and at last meet his fate
And took the path that his past had forbid

Escape they made though not without pain
But their destiny was to be fulfilled in each other’s arms
Soul-mates of but one mind and common thought
He gave up his past in whole, pledging to ward off all harms
And the union was whole with many new vows they made
Through the chill of life their love would keep them warm
Against the attacks of the host this would stand together firm
With shared strength, each for the other was a charm

But attack was swift and without mercy
The King long held the Lady restrained
He had the keys and knew her weaknesses
That evil he unleashed was learned while she was chained
Assailed on every front she bent beneath his will
Under this merciless attack her strength waned
While the Jester knew he could not wield such weapons
Those as others upon his queen’s now rained.

She fell beneath the vile devices
That bent her to their own will
They used the past and hid the truth
Convinced her that fate to not fulfill
The union sweet and all that was fair
Bringing all evil to bear, all hope to kill
Ripping the Lady and Jester apart
Leaving him to stand, waiting still

There he waits
With little hope or thought
As other mock
His life being little, nay naught
Watches as they steal
That for which he so long has fought
Alone, his fate crushed
Slipping away again behind locked doors
The Lady Fair
Damsel that he so long sought.