Put to rest

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The Black Jack King has finally been put to rest

Dead and buried in the grave with all the rest

Who grieved her mortal soul and left her for naught

Leaving love an empty blank and grief unsought.

He left one night and never found his way back

To the arms of love but hardly felt the lack

Of the ecstasy he once knew and felt

As at her knees he once worshipped and knelt

That loves pure warmth would warm his bones again

But choosing rather the cold flesh of another vain

Violent and rude the weary flesh did assault and leave

With the White King her nemesis her heart did grieve.

He soon forgot his lady and sought other friends

Now as she watches from the sidelines her heart rends

And all love weeps at the coldness of the war

That has changed her heart and led her so sore.

He is now put to rest in the cold dark sod

Under the judgment of heaven’s iron rod

Dashes in pieces like a potter’s marred vessel

His memory lingers not for he is loves vassal.

Love conquers all and will mend the heart of gold

A passion for the Black King has now taken hold…

Nothing in between

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“There’s nothing,” said the White Queen

“To life and death,” as she hovered between

Giving up the right to rule them all

Succumbing to the Black King she did fall

Away from her royal throne

Cut to the quick and the bone

She sank into the depth of the darkened sea

And all the holy light did flee.

He took her pale hand and raise her

Like a mighty ship from the depths there

Lifting her up beside his throne above

Where she will find love and prove

That love conquers all in life and death

And goes beyond the final breath…

The Verdant bed

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They lay on the grass and watched the birds overhead

“Is this the end of the line?” The Black King said

He lay there with the Thin White Queen

Waiting on the grass so fresh and green.

The sun beat down on their stoney faces

Turning them as horses in the traces

For they were waiting for the end to come

Two lovers in the midnight sun.

“Will you always be mine?” He said

As they turned to embrace on that verdant bed

The Thin White Queen never spoke a word

For she had gone before her voice was heard.

With a broken heart the Black King fell

Into the arms of his Belovèd as well

Together now they rest under the sod

Loving each other still and each other adored.

Who can break such a love as this

Dwelling together in heaven’s bliss

A gift of the Father, the Black Kings knight

To show the power of love in the night.

Holding on

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“I can handle the Black Jack King,” she said with certainty

“The question is, can He now handle me?”

For the Thin White Queen has come into her own

And the knights are rallying round as love has shown

Giving her the confidence to fight another day

Over the power of love she always holds sway

For the Black King loves her still

Though she looks pale and wan and lonely to fill

Her bed with weeping and looking for love

He her Lord and conqueror to prove.

Who will hold sway over the Thin White Queen?

When will the love of the Black King be seen?

She waits in patience for the Black Jack move

But his love has failed as she now does prove.

She cannot hold her love in holy bands

For the Black King is true loves man

He waits for her as she waits for him

A holy union in the face of death so grim

The royal pair are holding on and holding out

For true love’s prize a loving cup to flout

The power of the Black Jack King has passed

And only the pure love of two is held fast.

Centre

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The Thin White Queen is always alone

She sits in the centre of her royal throne

Waiting for her King to return

Enfold her in His arms again.

The Black King has promised her

All He has and will defer

All royal power to her sway

On that last great and final day.

She waits and longs to see His face

Who laid down His life in time and space

Now eternity becomes her waiting time

Love conquer all everlastingly sublime.

Scallywag pawns

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The scallywag pawns build their spliffs in the dark alley

Ruining the mind and the foray of a foolish sally

Knowing they are doing wrong doesn’t help

They talk at length to the rising Skelp

Who loves them enough to talk with them

About death’s door and the gate of heaven

Come out of the shadows and into the light

Let no more the enemy fright

So that you indulge in the risky business

Of this world’s scandals and opportune wiseness

Weary traveller, all though still so young at heart

Pierce through the gloom of deaths smart.

Meeting of Queens

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The Thin White Queen met the Black Queen

They sat together over the black and cream

Discussing the pros and cons of life with men

Trusting and courting with them again.

The Thin White Queen sat pale and wan

Disappointed and distressed at the memory of man

For she has pushed them all far away from her

Alone she dwells in the palace and gardens so fair

Graciously tolerates the outside world

Ensconced in robes so beautiful and royal.

The Black Queen so confident and wild

A confidant and one belonging as a child

She takes the Thin White Queen in hand

Shares the right to the royal band

Coming to terms with the slings and shots

Of life so cruel and the kindness of thoughts

Towards the wisdom she has gleaned

From treading the roadways of life cleaned

Of all sin and blame and the enemies woe

To the Black King they together must go…

Languishing

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She languishes in the cool of a summer night

Watching the shade of the dappled light

Tears are her food for all is lost

True love has vanquished her psyche at the cost

Of sleep and contentment, she lingers there

Under the blanket of rank despair

Who will save a soul so lost

Who will meet the needs she now has passed

On to others who ignore her neglect

Leaving only illness now suspect

Of being the fake that the love she bore

Over years of sorrow over and over

Now gone, true love is out of sight

Passing gently over her in the night.

Lining up

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Evil lines up against the truth

To close the mind and temper youth

Petulant asking the unknown wisdom

Of the King who owns the kingdom

But never comes to knowledge sweet

Blinded hate and ignorance greet

The darkest of nights that hold its sway

Over the soul in dead it tends to stay.

Rooks crows that will always wander

From paths of peace and eternal plunder

Of the souls of men to keep them in death

Facing forever the sentence of wrath

Break the chains, Lord and King

Let light and hope and heaven ring

From the prison houses of the damned

Salvation coming to every land.

Let the lines be broken in every mind

Lord and King clear up the blind

Open the eyes to see the fate

That befalls all who the Black King will hate.

A resolution

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Too shabby to make the grade, too smart to ask the question

Walking the streets of the city looking for certain desecration

The long white coat, the flowing greying hair

The Thin White Queen looks on in her despair

Who will release the power within the heart

That has bourn the brunt of the eternal smart

And sought the resolution to the pallor of loves grave

She wanting eternity and all she possesses to save

The soul of one so ignoble and untrue

His pain and unforgiving heart to ensue

She true love did grasp and hold it to her chest

A snake in the grass, an adder to beat the rest

That she seeks for yet another day

Hope fills the void that no one else can stay

For eternity holds the key to her rampant soul

For the waves of the sea forever roll.