The Weary Knight

The Weary Knight

The knight has fought his wars

Slain his dragons

Served his king

He fights on with a hope

A hope that one day he may find his princess

The knight has searched far and wide

But no where has he found his princess

He has looked in towns and cities

He has looked in farms and fields

But nowhere is his princess to be found

The knight grows weary of searching 

He gives up the hopeless chase

He returns his attention to his life

and forgets his dreams

The knight begins his travels alone

It is the lonely roads he seeks out

Along the way he finds a tower

Something at the top catches his eye

He notices what he has long searched for

His princess....

The knight feels hope return to him

Dreams of his princess fill his mind

He casts a rope to the top

and begins the climb

The knight climbs higher and higher
 Slipping now and then 

 he continues upward

The top is in sight

He knows his princess is close

The knight is inches away

His princess is within reach

 Stretching out his arm

He is ready to fulfill his dream

His heart is filled with happiness and love

Then ...the rope breaks

The knight falls from the tower

His descent seems to be slow

He looks up as he sees his princess

His princess is fading from sight

He wants to stop 

He wants to stay

But he cannot

The knight hits the ground

He feels pain all over

He does not want to move

He lays there.... defeated

The princess is no longer in sight

His dream has fallen out of reach again
What he most desires will not be his

With a heavy heart he departs

As the knight walks away from the tower

he looks back... vowing to return

It will not be today

It may not be tomorrow

But one day

One day

The knight will have his princess