| Page 20 The Poems Of Terri Lyn Stanfield |
| Defenseless In a castle by the sea, there lived a lonely soul Untouched by human frailties, such as love Distant from all, connected to none A life lived free of emotion, a life lived alone Though many tried to brave the swells To storm the castle's walls The fury of the sea proved too great And the solitude continued To approach the castle from the landward side Was to court a certain death For it was guarded by a fearsome dragon Known to consume comers, one and all Til the day a tiny child approached With big blue eyes and golden curls As fearless as she guileless was She walked right up to the castle gate The dragon reared his head to strike The child flinched not, but held his eye And smiled with all her innocent beauty The dragon froze there in his tracks As he felt his wicked heart melt |
| His evil soul flooded with love for the beautiful child And she passed, unharmed, into the castle hall The castle's inhabitant had watched in disbelief As the child cast her spell upon the dragon For surely, that must be what had occurred No other explanation could suffice Whatever her intentions, she would find him not so easily enchanted He had no heart for her to touch His soul nothing but a black void He watched her as she proceeded into the great hall Heading errlessly straight for him It seemed as if she knew exactly where he was Even though he stood in the darkness Just one more shadow among many A light shone around her as she approached She seemed to glow, as if from within He thought to flee as she neared But he held fast, knowing instinctively There was no fleeing this, no fleeing her He was looking at his destiny Watching it in fearful awe She continued relentlessly forward Until she stood within his reach But he reached not, he moved not He barely breathed Her eyes of blue held fast his golden orbs She looked into his very soul And to his amazement He found he had one for her to view He felt its stirring for the first time in his memory And was terrified He didn't want to feel, he didn't want to care Not about anyone, not about anything She saw his fright, and she placed her hand in his And when she touched his hand She captured his heart For yes, it happened, that he had one of those as well Still she held his gaze entranced And slowly a smile began to show forth on her beautiful face It encompassed all that she was Beauty, innocence and love And he found himself smiling back in kind And he felt her sweet love engulf his being And in that instant he became all that he never was All that he should have been His soul lonely no more For a beautiful child had succeeded where great men had failed For she had come bearing the one weapon against which he had no defense Love Copyright � Terri Lyn Stanfield All Rights Reserved |
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