The old goddess

Whatever you do,
three times returns to you -
that was the only rule
from Ostara to Yule
when a king and his mother-queen
were as equal as they could have been
until there came some usurper
claiming himself better maker
keeping the damsel from her place
in the worst sort of menace,
but she of the blood told impure
has in time remained secure
for simple men cannot erase
what a Woman has built in steady pace.

15/12/2016