QUEEN OF YELLOWCASTLE

Her queendom was stolen by a thief

and she died a thousand deaths

but she haunts with gasping breaths

the Queen of Yellow Grief

~

Some say she wears a crown of withered dogwood blooms

and whispers with the shadows of the trees

and wanders with each chilly autumn breeze

~invisible~throughout the castle rooms

~

Some say she walks but leaves no footprints in the snow

and reigns her castle from a shadowed throne

~though dead as stone~

and whispers "woe"

~

Some say she cast a wicked spell

upon the thieving king

that his everysleep would be haunted to awakening

by her voice~and~follow him to hell

~

Some say her throaty laughter can be heard

with the creaking of the master bedroom floor

and that her spirit comes in through the kitchen door

~how absurd~?