TheChroniclesOfStarfire-Chap.7

The Chronicles of Starfire - Chapter 7 - Tamaran Falls (Paradise Lost)
Born on Tamaran
The Paradise Planet
They were,
The sisters:
Princess Koriand'r, the younger
And the older:
Komand'r.
Had training
On Okaara,
The Long-Dead Planet
They gone to.
But `twas Komand'r's heart
Laced and burnt
With the poisonous,
The Black Fire within.
Had on Okaara
A most egregious act
She committed:
Kill her younger sister,
Did she
Try
To do.
Was it
A
Most shameful act-
One,
From which
Could she
Never
Recover-
Nor return to Tamaran
Under shame.
But did not
Komand'r care,
For had she harbored
The Black Fire
Since ever her birth.
Born deficient,
Was she-
Therefore, `twas it
Determined
That the title
Of Princess-
Was she
Not
Deemed fit
For rule.
And for this
Did Komand'r ever despise
Her sister
As well as
All Tamaran.
Had she tried to eliminate Koriand'r
At Tournament on Okaara -
So was it only
One sister
Who to Tamaran
Returned.
But soon
Would Komand'r's shadow
Be cast
Over the Paradise Planet's
Eyes-
For `twas it no more than days
After home
Did Koriand'r arrive,
That Tamaran's clouds
Parted
Unkowingly-
Citadel
Warships
Filled the sky.
A century
Had been it
That
The Citadel
Attempted
To take Tamaran
Into its fist,
And but for a century,
Had the Paradise Planet
Held fast
In
Resist.
But soon
Was made it clear
Today,
`Twas it different
Mightily.
The new defenses
Of the planet-
Did fall they
Easily.
"But how?!"
Cried King Myand'r-
-Koriand'r and Komand'r's father-
How hath
They broken through?"
As did they
Watch
Their people
Become
Slaughter.
Did only Koriand'r know:
`Twas it her older sister-
Yes, `twas this Komand'r's doing!
But to herself
Did this secret
Ske keep,
Swearing to kill Komand'r
Herself
Once
Again
Did they meet.
And soon did Tamaran blood
Stain
Its rivers,
And arise
Did the stench
Of
Five million bodies.
But `twas that
The count
For
The first attack-
The beginning.
Soon
Would even the oceans
Of Tamaran,
The Paradise Planet-
The Unhurt World,
Fatally
Bleed.