Author's Note: This is meant to be Chick/The King, and Chick is thinking this about The King's wife. This is Chick's thoughts after the race. Tell me if you think I should make it into a longer songfic! Poem based on Rayek: Pridefall, which belongs to Leslie Fish. Cars belongs to Pixar.
If
I were skilled at hatred, King's wife, I'd have split your
heart.
You can't know all the reasons that I've come to take this
part,
Or why we're seen standing here in this long and bitter
test.
We know which one he loves the more, but which one loves him
best?
I
came to you a rookie kid, with hard but open hands;
He never knew
you'd drive me out to drift in alien lands.
His righteousness,
your love for him -- they broke my life and pride.
Yet I have
reasons, more than one, to stand here by your side.
My
pride and love and standing, all, you fairly won away.
I could not
live defeated, so I could no longer stay.
Yet it was I who
challenged, and by my own hand I lost.
Now I look back on what
I've gained, and wonder at the cost.
Indeed
I've changed, old rival! Now among my hard-won gains
I have the
skill to win the race, and take what prize remains.
And yet,
through loss and victory, one truth I can't decide.
Did I love my
own true love less than I loved my pride?