Saga of the Swans

It is long past time that I post another poem, so here is a tale of some swans:

Once upon a time, on a silver pond shrouded in mist,

There lived a pair of swans whose souls had had met and kissed.

Then daily life caught up to them, and the girl swan found

That whenever there was work to do, the boy swan wasn’t around.

The girl swan built the nest, the girl swan gathered the food,

But she was afraid to say that the boy swan was no good.

Soon they had two cygnets, and she loved one with all her heart,

But the other felt all her anger that should have been the boy swan’s part.

The little cygnet wondered why her mother hated her so.

She tried to be obedient and to put on a good show.

No matter what she did, her mother was always mad,

And so the little cygnet figured she was inherently bad.

Then she grew into a swan and flew far, far away.

She found a mate who loved her dearly and wanted her to stay.

She realized that she was good, and that the girl swan lied

When to convince her of her faults she had tried and tried.

So she let her mother’s anger be at the fact she flew away,

And she never had to hear the lies the girl swan liked to say.

Would they ever reconcile? The mist makes it unclear,

For what the cygnet wanted to say, the girl swan would not hear.

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