The Young Star

Poem by Douglas Colston

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There once was a prince (or perhaps they were a princess)
born with an extraordinarily powerful lineage
and raise by some of the greatest tutors in the world –
including the armies commanded by their father.

In their childhood (at one time or another)
prophecies concerning their stellar fate
were entered in the holiest of holies in Jerusalem
and deals were struck for their early elevation to the monarchy.

They later wrote (in their old age)
how the most learned people of the land would meet regularly
to discuss what they had recently discovered …
and they were satisfied.