The Queen Jinsung Poem by Kinsley Lee

In long time ago, there's a long road
In the Central Asia, they called it silk-road.
The old world was connected by the road on the grassland
And far-east, there's a kingdom on the old land.
They called themselves the Silla, on the old
Land but it's known to exterior as a kingdom of gold.

The Silla was a Kingdom of a thousand year old
But it's known to exterior as a kingdom of gold.
A million people'd lived the capital city
And roof-tiled houses're arrayed on the city.
For heating and cooking, the charcoals had been sold
On the stores of the street in the kingdom of gold.

A thousand years had passed when the kingdom
Was founded, long time no war, so it's boredom,
To the soldiers, and slowly the kingdom'd been declined.
But the old generation of nobles wouldn't find
The renovation for kingdom. They'd idled away
Because of their privilege and stuck to their way.

There's young princess at the kingdom of gold,
Who'd been beautiful and clever even she not old.
Her brother passed over her the throne
Because she'd capable of reign as he'd known.
And the high classed bureaucrats had agreed
Her succession for utilizing her ignorance, it's indeed.

But they did not know her ambition in her heart,
Before the coronation she'd concealed the chart.
She'd tried to reform the old regime,
Renewal the kingdom's always her first theme.
Not knowing the politics, even she's not old,
She'd devoted the all, on the Kingdom of gold

She'd chosen a young man from the local zone,
To the central government, who was a known
Genius in Tang Dynasty, and she'd adapted
His ideas for revamping the old regime, she'd devoted
Her life to smash the hierarchical society,
And for people, and tried to re-erect her dynasty.

But to the bureaucrat, the reform were painful and spicy
So the establishment had denied her renovation policy.
And they put the blame to her the lousy names,
So life and death, they'd driven the games.
Alas, they'd succeed the hitting again,
And at last they'd impeached her to gloomy den.

The renovation'd been dispersed and the kingdom's collapsed
Before long, and helplessly time've elapsed.
With all the blames having covered her at history,
Long time, her abdication and death was the mystery
But we know her spirit of patriotism and renovation
And Queen Jinsung is the emblem of reformation.
(Sep.13th,2024, Kinsley Lee)