your world is falling in flames withering visions of mortality halcyon house of royalty littered in golden debris helplessly watching the fall capitulating crumbling parapets archaic and dilapidated dynasty ruins amidst my feet a mosaic of rot and defeat a mural of extravagant tragedy sunken amongst the wreckage of one who once elicited the authority of terror fear and awe snarled commands now but a whisper amongst your funeral winds sentinels sneak away silently adorers and apostles abandon thee brutus grinning beckons thee judas circles about thee in the fading light of evenings pall viscera rusting in vacuity devoid of stamina and sustenance constitution courts calamity mighty muscles atrophy emaciated sullen sovereign foreboding doomed nobility the king is dead long live the king casket of tarnished gold sinks slowly below the surface weep and despair this is the end