For Hitting the Prince With a Flower

What? Fifteen years in gaol?
Just one year less than years
already lived; now tears
won’t help and pleas will fail.

Unless... perhaps the Prince
will help? If he should ask
for mercy, she might bask
in Royal pardon. Prints
of petals on his skin
are gone; but prison leaves
deep scars. Sometimes reprieves
let everybody win.

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