Thinking about Annalee went a little silly...

Annalee's Story

Her life was short
Lasting just one show.
But to tell the story
She had to go.

The mother of Blue
And the wife of John
Halfway through the pilot
She would be gone.

She liked Arizona
And she liked the cows.
She did name the ranch
The High Chaparral.

But, after that
There's not much more.
A well-placed arrow
And she was on the floor.

John would mourn
And Blue would too.
A new wife came
Causing both to stew.

Annalee's ghost
Haunts at times
The journal she kept
And the crystal windchimes.

Victoria fights
The fading memory.
Of a woman who would
Have been an enemy.

Annalee loved John
With her every fiber
For good or bad
She wasn't a fighter.

She had to die
For the sake of the plot.
So John and Victoria
Could tie the knot.

It's terrible to admit
But we have to say.
We're glad she died
And Victoria came.