Royal Wedding (poem)

Royal Wedding

It is important to remember
amidst all the flashing cameras
the media's drooling over-statements
the ostentatious glory of it all
royalty indeed being different
and the bride is so beautiful
and the groom is so cool
so why not wish them the best?
even as we remember
because it's important to remember
that even as they give their vows
even at this very moment
in the dark shadows of Afghanistan
there is a young teenager as
beautiful as any future queen
if you know what to look for
a girl who dreams of her future
no less than commoners wedding
royalty a girl not yet a woman
but woman enough for the soldiers
who drag her into the barn and
have their way with her before
beheading her for her sin of
compliance the unholy whore
it is helpful to put royal
weddings in perspective in
this larger vision of the world
because this and not royal
weddings is what we must call

reality

--Charles Deemer