THE QUEEN OF HEARTS

I am she. The Queen of Hearts. "Off with their heads!" And I mean it when I shout it! The rules are my rules. I define them. All will follow them, or it's "Off with their heads!"

It keeps my world orderly, don't you see? I want everything to be perfect. To run smoothly. I have no tolerance for disorder or for fools. Confusion is not embraced in my world. Far better that my form of justice is carried out, even though others (like that pesky Alice) do not care for my style. Why prolong the chaos when I can halt it immediately?

Ah, but like Lewis Carroll's story, few actually do get beheaded. The King of Hearts makes sure of that. And those surrounding the Queen rarely obey her rules. She is feared, but she is actually quite powerless. It does not matter to her as long as attempts are made to keep her world free from disharmony.

My King of Hearts does, indeed, exist. ::smile:: He is the calm to my fury. He is the voice of reason to my cry of unfair. He is the even to my uneven. He is the day to my nite. And occasionally he "gets" me when I am not sure I "get" myself. He accepts that I sometimes love others with an intensity and passion most reserve for only one. Why? Because he knows he is my only King of Hearts for life and far beyond.

And I am his Queen of Hearts.

Together we are an anomaly. I laugh at times when I think about us. We almost never fight. But, when we do, he is the "Off with her head" Heart of the couple. My head. He wants it off. Big time! ::grin:: I cower. Yep, the Queen of Hearts is not her usual bold self then. Scared, even. Ah, but the beauty of it is that the tempest is over quickly, and he is genuinely full of remorse and once again restored to his natural King of Hearts ways.

We are a couple of well-suited cards. ::cheesy pun intended::

"Your way? All ways here are my ways!" ~The Queen of Hearts from Alice In Wonderland