Instagram Prompts Series: Prompt #1 - A forbidden love between a Christian girl and a Muslim boy during Medieval times

I am the girl 

who hath admired you from afar 

Lest our kingdoms shake 

Lest they go unto war 

I have seen your soldiers 

Singing their hymns of glory  

As if our city, they reclaimed 

As if our majesty, no longer reigned 

And I hated them,

I hated them. 

But you, you were different

The smile you held as you tended to your horse 

As you caressed the locks of its hair, 

your fingers down, down 

to its ends 

It whinnied and you laughed

that naive, little laugh 

that only I have seen, and that I have sinned 

for desiring to keep that for myself

To watch you from this nunnery 

Watch you from a place so secluded, so sacred, so holy

But what good is sacred 

If it keeps me 

From ecstasy

What good is righteousness

If it forbids me something so divine 

As thou?

Alas, nothing is. 

I hear your army cheer 

"All hail the Sultan, 

the gods go with him 

and his sword"

-- the last hurrah,

before our city crumbles

before we are consumed by the flames 

 

And so the Widow proclaims:

"And we rejoice upon this, we thank our Lord in heaven, 

for He is now calling us to be in a better place."

Prompt submitted by @mielkules