Literature
What More...
Her home has been captured.
Her husband has been killed.
Their child was thrown
from the highest wall of her kingdom,
falling to his death.
What more was left for her to do?
Not even the ship
her husband so valiantly rode in on
remains intact.
Fire and death surround her,
and she is afraid.
What more is left, she wonders.
She longs to see
her husband and son again,
the only loves of her life.
"What more is left to do, my love,
than walk out into the sea and drown?
I will see you and our son soon."
And with a smile
she walked into the sea,
staring ahead
at her husband's burning ship.
She closed her eyes,