Give(st) Me A Chance!
3 Poems?? You may be wondering… No, I’m not feeling especially prolific today… just very in love and very inspired!
Give(st) Me A Chance!
“Milady”, said the knave to the queen,
“I beg a pittance of your time–
though truth be told, I’m unworthy
of something so sublime.”
“Gentle servant,” began the queen,
“What troubles your humble mind?
It should be a matter of great importance
to warrant my precious time.”
“Under his divine direction
I have come to ask of thee
a request you might think silly
but it’s most important to me.”
“I have always been your servant
he has decreed it from my birth
and the love that you show your
people is more than we are worth.”
“To wash your feet, to clothe your back
is not enough for me
I seek to show you my unending love,
and the depths of my loyalty.”
“For it must be so that when I was born
I loved you more than he.
Though blasphemous to say,
it’s rough to love what I cannot see.”
“How can I show you, my righteous queen
how I lovest you?
Should I lay my life before your feet
or would I be a fool?”
“I implore upon your patient soul
to accept my eternal pledge
to guard you from malicious deeds
that might threaten your precious head.”
“Take me as your stepping stool
to lay your feet upon.
Take me as a trusted man,
to counter threats anon.”
Said the queen to the knave,
“I hardly knowest thee
but something in thy breath and words
speaks from divinity.”
“Though my life is put at risk
from a hasty action thus,
I will trust in he that sendest thee,
and bloom life from barren dust.”
“There is a quality about you
that makes me shiver with fear
and yet you have a gentle spirit
that I imagine would grow dear.”
Oh what will come of this foretold day
when blind nobility gave
a simple man a chance to show
he was more than just a knave?
Would the humble man show the queen
that her trust was well-deserved?
Just ask Jamie Ly and Lisa Ngov–a pair,
of whom, you might have heard.
