This poem was written by Sister Julee Sharik for the Bonneville 13th Ward Relief Society Birthday Celebration - Daughters of a King. We thought it appropriate to share here. You are welcome to have a copy for yourself or to share with others. Sister Sharik only ask that her name and the copyright symbol appear on every copy. Thank you!
ROYAL FAMILY
Stands the King alone, without a Queen?
No. Thou art thy Mother’s daughter
At the feet of two shining thrones were you prepared
To leave behind your royal robes
Fashioned of flowing silk, trailing laces and pearls
Taking up skirts and aprons of simple homespun
More suited to the stains made by honest sweat –
To set aside your satin slippers
Accustomed to whispering across streets of gold
Pulling on boots of a plain and sturdy sort
Cobbled for climbing steep and stony paths –
To exchange soft, white hands that never held a rose
Without first the thorns had been removed
For a calloused palm and blistered thumb,
Marks of honour won in the service of friends–
To trade banquets in a marbled palace
And tables swelled with plenty
For seasons of drought and times of want
Hungering and thirsting after higher things –
Stand you alone on this earth?
No. Thou art the sister of thy sisters
Though strangers in a foreign land
Each of us a princess still,
Recognizing on one another’s brow
Ornaments of grace,
Reminders from our Father, the King
Of who we are and from whence we came
Placed there by our Mother's hand
"King’s daughters were among thy honourable women
and upon Thy right hand did stand the Queen in gold"
Psalms 45:9
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