Thursday, March 17, 2022

Genghis Khan Left

Tom Thumb flew away on a butterfly, thinking he

was Genghis Khan - when long ago he rode off 

on a mouse as steed, his sword a sewing needle,

he dreamed of fighting destiny and becoming

a Lord himself - the youngest son of Conan the

Barbarian and the Queen of Hearts, wanting to

 

Prove himself as more than just an angry dwarf,

his brothers Attila the Hun and Peter Pan never

took him seriously - Conan himself shrinking with

age fought with the Genghis that lived inside the

lonely Tom who never forgot how the Queen of

Hearts had left him outside as a child; he was a

 

Changeling in her eyes - her love never touched

his heart when he was grown: to his sisters, Alice

and Snow White*, he confessed his heartbroken-

ness, nothing healed his wounds, now Genghis 

had left - Tom Thumb's soul flying off into that 

long good night, Alice in Wonderland has begun 

 

Dreaming of comforting him, holding him tight,

bringing his name to the Troglodyte site, singing

Lullaby for Liefstetjie to him just as the Queen of

Hearts did every night when her children five

were babies all - lonely, so sad and small…

 

[Friday 11 March 2022]

*Snow White alias The Duchess

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