Princess,
I have no crown to offer,
but still—I vow to be your protector.
you gifted me this rose,
which lies silent on my bedside,
so that you’d remain in my heart, forevermore
but you never needed to,
for you scorched my heart,
with a fire that never ceases.
But I, a knight,
may love and lose—
yet am ever bound to solitude.

And my princess,
she already had her prince.
I was just a shadowed knight
for any damsel in need,
But she, no longer in distress—
and I, never to ride into the light
Our paths forever parallel,
but never to unite,
because ‘twas always thus.
And always thus
will be.