I'm a couple days behind on the Chesterton Challenge, but in light of @isfjmel-phleg posting that piece of Tietra's backstory from the Blackberry Bushes series, I decided to skip ahead to the "mother" prompt and post this attempt at a kyrielle about her situation.
Kyrielle for Tietra
The world is locked in awful war
At last, to end it I must be
Forever wedded to the foe
O God, be merciful to me
I come within a foreign court
My name changed by a king's decree
My past erased, what else remains?
O God, be merciful to me
My husband's death leaves me alone
Suspected as an enemy
By those who hold my daughter's crown
O God, be merciful to me
They aim to shape my daughter's life
In ways with which I can't agree
I must retreat to save her soul
O God, be merciful to me
Caught fast between her world and mine
With foes I can't defeat or flee
How can I save myself and her?
O God, be merciful to me
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