She sat queittly waiting,
Checking her watch
She wore around her neck.
It was bought specail
For her by her husband
His family had lost their land
During the Schwelig wars
Between Germany and Denmark
They had been old Danes
Now his family were immigrants
To America living off
Thier old banks and new properties
She had been one of those introduced
To Queen Victoria
Old Saint Petersburg elite
She could have married
Almost everyone they said
With her beauty
Instead she married her heart.
She had inherited
These titles from the West
Those crazy uncles had gone
To get their riches
Gold rush of California
And the West dreams
Riding horese with a shotgun
And making friends with Indian
Crazy old fools.
There was little left
When she was finally old enough.
1907 she left on a boat
For Canada to take a train
Into the West
Idaho is as far as she got
Before they caught up
With her and her fiance
And her got married
At the Justice of the Peace
They were waiting for San Francisco
Which they found
Was still putting itself
Back together after the 1906
Earthquake and fires.
Ten years had gone fast
Finding more abandoned homesteads
While he was in a new religion
That required tithing
And wanted to know their bank records
He would end up loosing most
Of his life but kept a few or the farms.
They had their own wine label
And trees that produced
Nuts and fruits
That would sale to anyone
Who had money for the transport
Now she was back looking
For a distant relative
The revolution had hit her town
Leningrad is now its name.
Here she was sitting in a forest
They used to take parties
Into the woods with picnic baskets
Instead she had brought a small boy
Out of the war torn city
In her hamper
They were waiting for his father
He was bored with this situaiton
He had been through it before
He might remember his mother
But maybe not
He knew he had been in the woods
With a crazy lady
Who said she was his mother
Kept him from going to school
That got her in trouble
With the locals
The country was different
They all had to cooperate
With the Soviet leaders
Who had appeared to be friendly
With the Americans and the French
In order to get away from the Nazis
They had burned and pillaged
The lands all the way to Moscow
Where they starved out the locals
But in the end they left
Just as Napoleons men had
Back to where they came from.
They were no longer being freindly
With either America nor Britian
Instead they took over Berlin
And most of the Western small nations
In order to build a buffer zone
Between themselves and the others.
Now the people inside this zone
Were under fire if they don't
Show full cooperation
He had seen a couple shot
When he was only two years old.
Her friends did not arrive
But she had shown him the necklace
He had not known she had.
It was a trifle to him
But he knew they would want it
And would cut her throat
In order to get it.
When they came instead
He acted as if he was cooperating
Thugs and worse
They were this gang of thiefs
They had her as quick as they could
She did not have a chance
He worked with them
Until the sounds of the other approaching
Then he turned the tables on them
Freeing her from being kept
As a kidnap victim
After the money was paid
They would always kill the victim.
He knew this even though he was
Not yet seven years old
Too young to fight a group
Too small to get away from them.
She was ungrateful to him.
Why did you not fight.
He shook his shoulders
And said it was not the time.
Then he handed her the item
They really wanted
A time piece on a gold necklace.
She had no idea how much
That one item meant to those men.
He had seen her as well
The woman who had held him
Hostage when he was younger
Amongst the group
She had promised him he would
Not see her again.
Had she lied to him?
Instead, the new people
Were telling her that they could
Not remove the child from the country
There was too much trouble
She went along with them
To Leningard
Where they found an old couple
Who had lost their children
During the siege.
She nodded her head ever so slightly
But holding his hand firmly
She walked him to the ferry
She told them she would be back
First she was taking him somewhere
He was the son of a relative
Who had not been seen for a long time
Now the hier had been found
She made her way through
Having been an old citizen
To first Stockholm
And then Mexico city
She told him she had to have
Him put his feet down
In Baja before he decided
What he wanted to do.
He found himself
On the West coast
With the water as far as
One could see.
There were horses to rid
And boats to play with
As well as a working orchard
He was glad it was not one
Of those places they see in the news
Hay and cows and men in hats
Who spit out their tobacco.
Instead he learned the nicety
Of being in a Capitalist country
He had begun at a school
To train them to become
Real Communist
Instead of those self serving
Ones who spoke out of the corner
Of their mouth
But did not support
The rest who were under Lenin
They came for her out their as well.
He recognized the son
Of the rogues from the forest
They were not nice
They threatened to burn down
The town she was hiding
She had thought if they did not go
To America they would not get caught
Most of their properties had been confuscated
Except for the ones her sons were living upon
The ones who had not died
In the two wars she had not known
She would have to face
Her husband was gone now
So she stayed on the Baja prperty
As the safest from all those
Crauts they were rescuing
From Germany
Fools they were the worst
The ones who were not
Going to support any coutnry
But here they were
And her waiting for her granddaughter
To be married and take over this place
Instead she had sent him to Korea
Another war for her to cry over
At least she was on hand
She made the quick decision
To flee down the street
Where reinforcement came
They told the angry ruffians
To get lost which is not what
They did.
But getting the law to come out
Meant he was discovered.
Now she had to go to court
She won her case of adoption
But they still took the boy
Back to Leningard
Where the chef who had befriended
Her husband took the boy
Home to his son and wife
They were now childless.
The boy tried not wish he had
Been better behaved
It was too late for that.
He had to endure one more family
He spent his time learning
Got into law school.
Visiting her occasionally
In her holiday retreeat
As they called it in order for him to visit
Where it had been raided over and over again.
He granddaughter did marry a nicer man
Than she deserved as she was hysterical
Finding there might be anther one.
Long days in the sun
Where now spent in doors
He barely remembered his days
In the woods nor the forest
He wished she had not been so old
That day sitting their with her watch
Maybe they could have escaped
And not been followed home.
When she died the little girl
Arrived with the watch
To tell him that it was over.
His life there had only been
For her the woman who had rescued him
From the horrors of an abducted life
Where they never tell you the truth
But always have you working
Fraudeleant things
Out right thiefry and murder.
He was a good citizen
Who married a woman
Who was not in love with him.
She was sad the little one
The Sorrowful lady
She was called amongst others
She could niether come and stay
With him nor live in her families homestead
Her mother had been captured and tortured
Now she was just plain crazy
They had even killed her twin sister
The same group
Three generations
After the family that had gone through
Germany in order to serve
Thier new country.
The father was similar to him.
He had been traveling from London
Where he was left behind
By his mother once she had married
The man she was already married
Somehow, he kept getting lost
His mother had been thrown from a train
When she pregnant with him
They lived in Geneva
Until they were found
Her husband having been told
She was dead.
What a mess that had made.
He became the heir but it was already
Gone the things they had been
Told would be his when he was old enough
He went off to unviersity to get a degree
In anything scienctific
As he did not believe in god.
Now his son was being dragged
Down through Meixco
His wife had forgotten
Not to get him in trouble
While he was at school
They did not allow married men
The boy was put with a rich family
In London who then had lost
Anyways they were now together
At this laboratory with the new thing
They were going to build a bomb
To destory Germany
Than the world would be at peace
As these bad people
Were not going to stop
Until they controled the whole
Of humanity to thier demsie.
She travled from Quebec
To New Orleans
With the boy in order to get him
Away from anyone who was seeking him.
Then she went into labor
She had to go back
For just a few days
The baby would be his brohter
They would grow up together
And have fun in the sun
With peace at their disposal.
Instead, she died afterwards.
They said blood poisoning.
But it was probably what his dad
Was working on
Nuclear fusion or something
She came for him when he had not expected
Grace was beautiful.
But took him araound with her
Her husband was a loyal America
Having fought through both wars
On a ship in the Pacific
Then he retired with his nephew
As his only child.
Poor kid had never meet
His mother who died.
At some point in high school
After he had already been to training
His eyes had to be replaced
They did not tell him
But they think his mother and him
Had gotten too close
To one of the explosions
He had learned to read
After he had been taught
By oral the numbers
And other things he could learn
Without seeing
What he was now seeing
Was another kid who looked
Just like him
He did not know whom to talk
To about it as he was supposed to have died
The baby she was carrying.
His memories of his mother
Were scant but he recalled the train tirp
Here now was a kid who looked
Well, his real dad showed up
As he was going off to war.
He would not acknowledge teh kid
At first but did speak to him
About were he had been
He had been raised in Louisiana
Could it be the two boys
Had been switched?
He had gone t o court
Over his newborn disappearing
Then this one showed up
At his brother in laws.
Wonders never cease
In tims of war
And then peace
Where the threat to your
Family is real enough
But one does not think
They will steal them
Nor kill them
Little Albert
Did not have long to live
He married a girl
The descendant of the Conquistadors
From Texas then she divorced him.
He liked the little girl
Who kept calling him father.
But one day he and the other gy
Met, it was not pleasant
Then he finally got it
His brohter had lived
Now to tell his father
But then he was dead
They were shot at.
Would it never stop
Those people who keep after one
Long after a war is done?
Now she had an uncle and a sister
Gone to the graves
Soon her greatgrandmother
Would follow
And then the grandparents
Who were the only ones
Who knew what had happened
Had their lives shortened
She fought for her uncles
To survive and live
Happily among them
But her parents lost thier way
The boys were removed
Taken to other places
They were to get together
Again one day
But it was venver going to be the same
All things kept leading her back.
Now her parents are gone as well.
Then they swooped in to take the properties
That had been guarded
The only things left of the old ones
Lives after leaving Europe
At the height of the troubles
All their treasures have been
Distributed as well
The bad guys just did not
Want them to have anything at all.
Too many false ones came forward
All she his is the watch.
Not her name nor her life
They have taken everything
Even her eyes were removed
She had worked hard
As the heiress whom
Was to take care of the rest
Those who were still alive
Had gone a long time ago.
To their own rewards
Not knowing the battle is still not over
For them it will be a figh to the finsihs
She intenad sto be the last one standind
She does not blame her farther
For his failing eyes sight
But wished here mothers brain
Had not been tampered
She is going to kill
Every last one of them
Before it is over
For not knowing when
Enough is enough.
By the way father
Mother lied to you
I am the other one
Not Dawne
But Aurora.
