High Tower

Up in the high tower of this long standing castle.
Views are spectacular yet life is a debacle.
Imprisonment by her eldest half sibling.
Claims he is protecting her from something.
Never will he say what the something is.
Her doubt flows like rivers down a mountain.

Then one day war comes close to her eyes.
Seeing it waged she burned fires alongside issuing cries.
Attained the interest of this invading force.
So much so their entire contingent changed course.
Before long her castle was surrounded.
Ultimatum delivered to her half brother who was confounded.

Heart won over mind and so he paid with his life.
Her tower breached she concealed a knife.
Uncertain of intent until their eyes met.
Her heart fluttered sure there was no threat.
Invading princess was a beauty unmatched.
Trapped princess adored her so much that to them she latched.

Mutual feeling overwhelmed the invading woman.
Transfixed they undertook a union.
Burned the prison castle to ash and dust.
Never could it have been left untouched.
And soon after the princesses departed for more conquest.
After all they had both faced what remained would never be a test.

Forty winters and still they stand side by side.
This pair have been on a hell of a ride.
Liberating those oppressed who now dwell in freedom.
A mirror of what happened to both of them.
For at one time invading princess had too been locked up mercilessly.
Now those days are but a distant and faded memory.