Disclaimer: I love the Dune series far too much to ever want to weasel ill-gotten money from it. Therefore…I'll just show my appreciation by writing the occasional character study poem.
Author's Note: I'm starting with Alia, because she caught my eye when I got to the second half of the first book in the series, and she's held my imagination ever since. I hope I do her justice with this poetic one-shot.
Alia's Song
Am I the abomination?
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For two years I traveled the sand,
And now I hear your reprimand.
For two years I lived on this earth,
Now you shun my unwanted birth.
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Am I the abomination?
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I have known of a thousand lives,
Played the part of a thousand wives;
Nursed the mouths of a thousand babes,
And wept over a thousand graves.
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Am I the abomination?
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You have Paul, you need no other.
Would you kill me, Reverend Mother?
Shall I be a daughter unknown,
Dead before I was fully grown?
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Am I the abomination?
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You shriek at me to leave your mind.
What do you think that I might find?
I'm much like you, yet not the same.
Now tell the Emperor my name.
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Am I the abomination?
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Plans within plans, and planned attacks
To get your Kwisatz Haderach.
You did your part so very well,
So why do you curse me to hell?
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Am I the abomination?
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Two little years, a Pre-born's life;
To be the Saint of this crysknife.
You have lived so very longer,
Yet today I was the stronger.
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Now tell me…
…Am I the abomination?
