- [<] Status Log
- created:: 2022-05-06
- status-updated:: 2022-05-06
- afterword:: [[2022.06.22a royal protection of foreigners]]
- [i] I'm not sure what kind of analysis I could do for this that isn't covered under [[2022.01.26a broken heart syndrome and human sacrifice customs]] unless it's to discuss the role of fire in human death customs (pyres / witch burning). Look into "foreigners under the protection of the prince."
```poem
Suppose you've found yourself
Under the protection of a conqueror, foreign-born
Right at a time when you most desire freedom for
the women of the world — I must warn:
Vanity aside, the irony will burn
Into the dawn of heathen days and past the
Veil of death, yet
A widow as cursed as I for living still surely knows
Lingering past the death of love is sacrifice
as surely as embracing the wind's flame breath
```