From Up to Down

Dedicated to Alhena 

The boy from the village

Who never wore a suit of armor

Tried to make it as a knight

Jousting into the field of sand

It was a maiden of the village

Of Hutchinson that he found

While riding his stallion one sunny day

She was still and in shadow

Her voice did not speak

The knight got off his horse

And walked on the muddy ground with her

She felt her hair was the dirt

Her eyes like the murky marsh

And herself she saw as a mule

Is to a farmer without any food

The knight he stopped her

Taking hold of her arms

He spoke in his boyish voice

Claimed that her hair was the leather of a buffalo 

Yelled that her eyes were like the grass of spring 

And he hugged her body as though it was

A prize, and in gold, from the Lord

The two love birds came to the cobblestone street

Hand in hand, arms locked in 

Smiles beaming more than the sun 

They had one billion hearts behind them

The love stuffing the air 

And the knight got on his horse

Though the maiden stayed below

She can't look up to another

The sun gets into her eyes

The knight smiled on and never broke pace

Though the maiden wasn't smiling to his face

She tried to release her hand

But the knight jabbed her back

She raised her voice

The knight only nodded

She began crying and falling into the sharp stones

The knight threw away his hand in fear

The knight tried to grab again in grief

Though the maiden kept saying no

The maiden was free

The knight only nodded

She went to her new grasslands

The knight only rode on

Steps a dozen times slower

Till he plummeted into the mud

Realizing what he'd done

So without the suit of armor

He was trying to make it to the end of the night

Hearing the jousting  from the field

The boy from the village stood still in shadow