lover’s debt

Stratus clouds form an arch in the sky 
dipped in gray off the painters palette wide
perfectly frame in worldly view - a Prince

sunrise sits solemnly, six-feet
behind, bidding farewell to our Beloved
Windsor worries now wiped away
softly, choristers sing thee into eternity
Eternal memories of Patriarch royalty
his Queen mourns on the pew, pining silently

Son-rise sits Gloriously, six-feet behind a 
trail of snow-white Sea Holly vines 
tears of royal-blue processional lineage lines 
a casket with Bear's Breeches like moonlight shine

Berkshire bows heads tipped low
United Kingdom marches grieved hearts in tow
heavenly home this Prince will now know
rest from decades of service as the 
trumpeters horns blow

"Grief is the price we pay for love" said
a Queen, who settled her debt as a 
mourning dove 

seventy three years 
he lovingly served by her side
matrimony memories set adrift 
rise and fall against the North Sea's tide

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