a boy
callous innocent inexperienced
chaste

clad in a robe
    saturated
    sanguine red
    abysmal black
    the colours
    of my noble house

i kneel in supplication

before the throng
before my queen -

my goddess -
    her pure
    white radiance
    enhanced
    by great Sol

she takes my sword
unbloodied
unrusted

makes of me
a man

**the assignment: to look at a picture and translate it into words. my picture: "The Accolade" by Edmund Blair Leighton (i think that's who did it). couldn't help but make sexual overtones.**