A queen who died with a smile?

What faeries will follow 

Dakota's path through life?

Whose caring guidance will ease her

through the maze of paper and 

nonsense?

Who will take her fragile hand

and lead  her through the enchanted

forest that lays in wait, outside

the walls herein?

She will have a hundred guardian sprites

to carry the train of her designer garb

down the runway of life, 

because she will always be

The queen who died with a smile.

CLR 2012

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