A prayer for Manchukuo

Say a prayer for Manchukuo

That I keep close to me

Like my own

That is vanquished

And branded ‘Bastard’

As the last of the dynasty

That had so much in mind

But so little in fruition

Say a prayer for Manchukuo

The dream inside our hearts

To start a new

With no foundation

But to wake up

Invaded

And erased

I caught myself

I caught myself

Ragged but true

On the edge of your beauty

Left hidden from view

Wherein laid the contract

To circumvent a life's work

To dump her casket

Leave it caked in the dirt

For a horror house journey

On a derailed train

To the hearts destination

To the source of the pain

And I’ll not say a word

And we won’t hear the truth

From the breaking of heart strings

To the chaos in you

In the seas that are raging

Where my currents pass through

Pulling you to the darkness

To the depths I’d sink to

I laboured

How did you become such a child? Even with all your elegance and a walk that could lure only a grown man. And you, seemingly above betrayal, except to yourself and your worth to me. I laboured for you, lost years off my life I expect - and for what?

The kids will ask what their mother was like and I'll have nothing to say. Nothing.