Fiction Friday ~ Guest Post

This is a poem from a poetry project for school. I have reproduced it as is, font and all, with her permission.


A Fey's Catch
by Tristin Hunter

A Fey’s catch
Is a deadly one.
A deadly one, indeed.

They hunted her,
So fast, they were merely a blur.
They bound her tight,
Before first light.

They left that creature,
With the girl’s features.
Her parents’ thinking nothing unusual,
The child gaining their approval.

A Fey’s catch
Is a deadly one.
A deadly one, indeed.

The fey took her to their home,
Where she was left to forever roam.
She lived and grew there,
In the cold Winter Court air.

She never thought to escape,
Always drinking their wine and eating fox grapes.
She never learned of the world outside of that place,
So she was never prone to venture out of her space.

A Fey’s catch
Is a deadly one.
A deadly one indeed.

One day a half-breed came by,
Who was ever so sly.
She told stories of the human world,
And memories in the girl’s mind began to unfurl.

She knew what was real now,
Even if she didn’t know how.
She had to get away,
Away from these evil fey.

A Fey’s catch
Is a deadly one.
A deadly one indeed.

So she ran and ran,
With only one plan:
Get away from these things,
These nasty creatures with wings.

The Unseelie queen was very unhappy,
She ordered the fey to bring her back and make it snappy.
They never caught her though,
Because she had reached her world, where the iron grows.

A Fey’s catch
Is a deadly catch.
A deadly catch indeed.

She found her mother,
She found her father.
She expelled the creature that had been taking her place,
The one with unusual grace.

It wouldn’t give without a fight,
And it lunged at her ready for a bite.
But with all the girl’s time using that creature’s space,
And she had learned their pace.

A Fey’s catch
Is a deadly catch.
A deadly catch indeed.

She dodged and fought,
And in the end, got the victory she sought.
Her parents’ welcomed her back,
And trust in who she was, they did not lack.

From then on out,
She lived without doubt.
That this was where she was meant to be,
And she lived a life filled with glee.