The Power
The Kingdom is at peace today
The Prince breathes deep and slow
A peasant sees him laying down
Beside where flowers grow
The peasant bows and says, “Highness”
The Prince gives them a smile
He can tell as they walk off
They actually revile
The Prince behind his back because
How little strength he shows
Instead of fighting off a beast
He’d rather simply doze
The Kingdom’s people walk about
And do their daily chores
Secretly shaking their heads
At how he evades wars
He’d always run and hide whenever
The foes do attack
And only when peace is restored
Does he make his way back
He knows they all look down on him
But he accepts the role
Thrust upon him, although it
Does sometimes take its toll
Suddenly the peace is shattered
By a swooping beast
The winged creature breathes fire
And leaves a few deceased
The townspeople all run and scatter
All throughout the streets
To no one’s real surprise, the Prince's
Routine still repeats
He takes his furry companion
And ducks in a dark alley
He hears the men at arms outside
Assemble and then rally
Against the fire-breathing beast
But they are too outmatched
A single warrior who strikes
Is engulfed and then snatched
Deep down the Prince knows that he has
The courage to fight off
Any threat to his Kingdom
Though most at that would scoff
But he knows too he doesn’t have
The power that he needs
To fend off all the evil threats
And so he then proceeds
To hold his magic sword aloft
And speak the ancient name
Of the legendary King
From which his power came
“I have the power” he thunders
As lightning brightly flashes
Making him grow ten times stronger
As the thunder crashes
With power, knowledge and wisdom
The Prince no longer stands
In the alley, the sword now
Rests in a Hero’s hands
He points the sword at his small pet
Who cowers at the sight
Of lightning all around him, but then
Grows in ten times might
The companion roars as the Hero
Mounts the battle cat
And rides off to the courtyard to
Subdue the monster that
Has disrupted all the peace
That the Prince had enjoyed
All the people see him come
And are all overjoyed
They give him adulation and
Call him their only hope
Somewhere someone makes a crack
“The Prince ran off to mope”
The Hero blocks a blast of fire
With his magic sword
He dismounts and engages the
New beast sent by the horde
He grabs the beast by one leg while
The battle cat jumps on
Its back and bites and claws while Hero
Displays his full brawn
He lifts the beast above his head
With impossible strength
The cat jumps down and watches on
Always at arms length
The Hero grunts and hurls the beast
Into a castle wall
The bricks give way and beast commences
To forever fall
It screams and writhes as it plummets
Into the endless void
Another beast the Hero has
Successfully destroyed
The townspeople all cheer his name
The King joins them as well
He looks around for his young son
Again, he must retell
The exploits of this Hero since
Whenever trouble nears
The Prince pulls off a magic trick
And somehow disappears
The Hero sees the King search for
His skittish only son
He wishes he could tell the truth
But knows what must be done
He mounts the cat and rides off as
The people give him praise
A short time later, Prince returns
A few eyebrows do raise
“I’m glad you’re safe!” the King hugs him
But many people snicker
How whenever danger strikes
The Prince could not be quicker
“My furry friend ran off” the Prince
Explains all the folks
“I had to make sure he was safe”
He perpetrates the hoax
And accepts how they see him
A gutless, craven coward
A necessary mask for the
Hero deep down, empowered
By the strength and courage of
The King whose skull was gray
Until the next time they need help
By flowers he will lay
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