Friday, 20 September 2013

THE EMPEROR AND THE FOOLS



The Emperor and the fools
The impeccable sense stood written,
In the dusk of the crystals that lay broken,
And yet the triumph was never sung,
The unarchs never feasted with the emperor,
Her highness with valor mingles not with the neutured,
The sterile hopes of of the dust dwellers.

Yet dawn lay far from dusk,
Struggling to outwit themselves in stampede,
The duel with their own hooves,
Trampling under their own confusion,
As her highness watched from the throne,
Woven from their sweat and decorated by their blood.

It is still long before dusk
Before the rain soaks their ignorance,
Before the sun dries their dripping stupidity,
And yet the emperor still sits
With a goblet in hand,
Emptying the casks,
As the fools trample in a show.

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