Shall we begin, says my shrink,<\/p>\n
Now tell me what you think,<\/p>\n
If I ask you what you remember,<\/p>\n
All about your mother,<\/p>\n
Not the ego and the id,<\/p>\n
But just your time as a kid?<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
In truth, there isn\u2019t much to say.<\/p>\n
She would not let me have my way.<\/p>\n
Her own fears to me she projected,<\/p>\n
My natural instincts stifled and rejected,<\/p>\n
From childhood to adulthood, so much regret,<\/p>\n
Such a trying time, I would much rather forget.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
But I have imagined, in some alternate history,<\/p>\n
I was a singular person of some notoriety?<\/p>\n
Sired in secrecy, mired in anonymity,<\/p>\n
A libertine Don Juan, a rake of profligacy,<\/p>\n
From the Virgin Queen I sprang, in this other reality,<\/p>\n
That scion of Elizabeth, a bastard of the monarchy.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
\u00a9 2020 S Phua<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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