Crown You Oberon Poem by Josephine Dunn

She will make you king
In the tiny kingdom of her heart
She will crown you Oberon
And pray you never part
She will be daughter-mother
To your everlasting child
Be Wendy to your Peter
Give adoration meek and mild.
She will wait on you and worship you
At the altar of your dreams
Praise every little thing you do
Never criticise your schemes
She will follow like a spaniel
Closely at your heels
And when you go to kick her
She will cross herself and kneel
She will take each heavy blow
That flies from angry hands
And seek to fulfil each of
Your unreasonable demands
She will crown you Oberon
To be Queen of Fairyland.

April 2003 - published in Rhyme & Reason (poetry collection) 2003