Sense Sonnet - Acher

Last Time Together

The father carried his young son,
Followed close by the mother and
Their four daughters - journey begun
To a final destiny planned.
Led into a cellar below,
By captors who were duty bound,
The family stood in a row.
The guns were fired from all around.
July 16th, 1918,
The family together died.
It was a bloody gruesome scene,
A Lenin approved homicide.

'Twas the death of a dynasty,
The last Russian royal family.