Charlotte

Honey I didn’t choose you and you didn’t choose me. Forced to be together for all eternity. We were young, our love was one to be arranged but to my dying days I will scream out your name. 

Oh Charlotte, how could you love someone like me? My mind slips in and out of darkness and in the depths of the hell, I still only see you. I’m sick, I’m ill, unworthy of you. But Charlotte, your love had never wavered and you’ve always stayed true. 

In the garden you work, tirelessly bringing new life. So many children you have bared from me.  Your beauty is true, with eyes that shine like the stars I so desperately seek. When my hands begin to Trimble and I fall to the ground, you lay next to me there and I’m in heaven again. 

Oh Charlotte, how could you love someone like me? My mind slips in and out of darkness and in the depths of the hell, I still only see you. I’m sick, I’m ill, unworthy of you. But Charlotte, your love had never wavered and you’ve always stayed true. 

I wish our marriage was one of bliss. My time spent sane is becoming far less. I spend my life half here half gone. But you, Charlotte, are always singing our song. And our song brings me back to the place of real peace. In this peace I sing 

Oh Charlotte, how could you love someone like me? My mind slips in and out of darkness and in the depths of the hell, I still only see you. I’m sick, I’m ill, unworthy of you. But Charlotte, your love had never wavered and you’ve always stayed true. 

This was written about the love between King George and Queen Charlotte (mostly influenced by the Bridgerton spin-off, Queen Charlotte). I wrote it from George’s perspective, as I imagine it was very difficult for him to grasp how someone could stick by him and love him with his debilitating mental health. I found their love to be very inspiring.