I'm king now
this was a kingdom once
living and ruled
sent men to die in war
made peasants grow the gruel
to feed the war machine
and bury bodies
this was a keep once
kept warm the lords and ladies
kept out the rabble
it's rubble now
troubled by usurpers and crown-thiefs
and the great malady
that wiped out the world
rest well, m'lord and m'lady
the danse macabre dances with us all
royal blood served you no better
than the dirt-veined serfs
who carried your body out on a tide
of unsaddened, unwashed faces
how comfortably do you live now
in the afterlife?
what check did Charon cash
after ferrying you across the river
where souls clash
I wonder
if there's such a toll to enter Ostrapalis?
a tax of gold, or stories told
blood and men murdered
gruel grown
and served
what cost to clear the mind?
I'm in the throne room now
take the throne and ponder
whether I should plunder
or continue to wander
away
I'm king now
I keep an empty, meandering court
