A Brilliant Beauty

By: Katelyn Abbott

Author’s Summary: A poem about who Princess Cassandra of Troy is and her being a brilliant beauty.

A brilliant beauty is she.

 

Brown curls the color of chestnuts cascades down her back,

Brown eyes as dark as chocolate that captivate a person to her,

 

China nose, dainty mouth, even white teeth, full lips as red and soft as rose petals,

Skin gleaming such as hers as smooth and soft and white as ivory,

 

And the voice as sweet as a nightingale sounds

Beautiful like snow in the dark, she was blessed with beauty, intelligence, charm, and desirability.

 

Called the daughter of King Priam and Queen Hecuba and the twin sister of Helenus,

Princess Cassandra of Troy was able to see the future and be correct in her predictions, but the

 

Elegant  Trojan princess was cursed never to be believed by anyone for all eternity by the sun god

 

Apollo.

 

She does not let  her curse get in the way of her sharing her foresights with others.

Cassandra ends up seeing visions full of blood, crying, death, extreme hunger, fire, grief, and

 

 Illness.

 

Her friendly and gentle ways make her speak of her predictions to other people around her and she

 

Tries to get people to believe in her predictions when she sees one of them, but her efforts to do so

 

Are futile as people will never listen to her for she rarely speaks of nothing other than terrible   

 

Things to come.

Her pleas fall on death ears when she begs to be heard by anyone.

The Trojans fully see her as a liar and a madwoman.

They give her the nickname of “The Mad Princess.”

How they mock, name call, and pity her in her supposed madness,

But it is Cassandra who cries for them and declares that she only seeks to save her Trojan people

 

By sharing her prophecies with them of both bad and good things to come and they are the ones

 

Who should be pitied for their failures to heed her prophetic warnings will lead to their own

 

Downfalls.

So Cassandra seeks solace in her dedication to the gods and tends to her duties as a priestess of

 

Apollo.

She spends as much time as she can with her family for she knows her time with them and

 

Time for Troy runs short as her beloved family and her cherished home will soon come to

 

An end.

Though the Trojan people see her as mad they are drawn to their Trojan princess’s brown

 

Eyes that are so beautiful, so brilliant, so courageous, so determined, so full of fire, and so

 

Strong and that seem to search through the soul of every person who locks eyes with her

 

With the raw innocence that men covet. The hardness and the knowing look in those eyes

 

Haunt the Trojan people for it seems that she knew far more than she should and had seen

 

More than she should.

 

The sad and tragic prophetess wishes for anyone to believe in her predictions and come to

 

Ease the loneliness she feels for she is an outcast among the Trojan people and outcasts are

 

Always alone.