Lucina

Lucina

by M. F. B. Porter

Part 1

I once knew a girl who I loved at first sight

Who had raven hair as dark as the night

Her love was the bright stars in the infinite dark

They shone through her presence, and her skin they did mark

She: a beacon of light shrouded in blackness

Though born from a place of hollowing madness.

Part 2

Her wrath was a hurricane, a whirl of lightning and rage

Surrounding- protecting herself, a blackbird in a gilded cage

But through the cloudy storms in her eyes, I saw on occasion

A glimpse of the girl before the invasion

Before her heart fell, cut through with a knife

Her heart was a well, bursting with life.

Part 3

My star had lost what she dreamed of in sleep;

Her sorrow was the sea, ever murky, ever deep

Her head was heavy by the weight of the crown

By the weight of the dead, by the weight of the gown

And still she walked on, scepter in hand

With grace and with pride, ever taller she did stand.