Royal Family - by Jewels Sharik

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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