Ode to The Warrior Queen

i. 

Let me stop you right there

While your words freeze mid sentence

I am for whom legends are written

The one you love and adore

But never understand

Why I do what I do when I do

Then walk away to the distant shore

My bleeding heart leaves a trail in the sand. 

Let me stop you right there

While you speak of love so lame

My whole being cringes with shame

At the earnestness you try to feign

In your eyes so false, in your words so obtuse

For I am a child borne out of the storm  

I will neither be contained nor restrained 

Within these confines of an excuse 

Of a love you’ve called grand.

Let me stop you right there

While your words freeze midair.

ii.

Come sit here by me, my child. 

Tonight I will sing a song long forgotten

About a prisoner held in the dungeons

Straining against the unyielding chains 

That tried to hold her back and down

To turn her soul into their creeds

And make her one of their own

Little did they know it’s all in vain

For she required little and had no needs 

For either a throne or a bejewelled crown

‘Cos she was born a warrior queen

Invincible by day, slaying dragons

Melancholy by night, fighting demons

And everything else in between

And the chains came down

Crashing, crashing. 

By:

Zaie Hamzah

Mont Kiara

19th May 2019