Day Eight

Today's words:

sentry

noun

faith

holiday

rash

fertilizer

There's a new sentry

Outside the palace gate. Still as a noun

He stands guard, sure in his faith

In king and country. He never takes a holiday

Or does anything rash.

His actions are no fertilizer

For village gossip. Not that anyone needs fertilizer

To encourage speculation about the new sentry.

Was his hiring a rash

Act on the King's part? Or perhaps another noun

Was involved, something relating to the Queen's recent holiday

Alone and far from the guardians of her faith.

But the people cling to their faith

That King and Queen will continue to act as fertilizer

For our prosperity.  We'll still go on holiday,

Knowing that they will stand sentry

Over every noun

That populates our country, and that no rash

Deeds will trouble our peace. One year there was a stinging rash

That afflicted many. It was found to be caused by a lack of faith

In our King's wisdom. Ever since then the noun

"Doubt" has been purged, lest it act as fertilizer

For more sickness. That's why there's a new sentry

And the Queen no longer takes holiday

Alone. For what kind of holiday

Is that - left unattended, exposed to rash

Temptations of every sort? No, our rulers need a sentry

To protect them, and guard their faith,

Lest our country become mere fertilizer

For some other empire, and our land just another common noun

In the dictionary of lost places, no more a proper noun

Enhanced with its capital at the start. Like a secular holiday

Versus a religious one, just as our doubt was fertilizer 

For that angry rash

That tested our faith

And demanded this new sentry.

We'll never mention that noun again; we won't do anything rash.

Every day is a holiday celebrating the faith

That acts as fertilizer for our safety, guarded by the watchful sentry.

Comment: "Noun" two days in a row?  I guess that is random, but ugh!