Robert Lindley Poet Rhyme

Hollow Thrones

Hollow Thrones

Death and destruction reigning in filth over dry bones
  kings ruling over weaker souls with little hope,
drowned deep, cast overboard loaded with misery stones
 unmercifully hung with no justice and short rope

So proudly the kings rule over subjects so very poor
 no concept of the natural rights of mortal man,
having power , treasure and selfish desires by the score
 completely unconcerned with life's ever so brief span

Shallow pleasures lusted without thought of coming reward
 stolen time and freedoms from more deserving souls,
unmindful of the many stolen lives so desperately scarred
 judgment awaiting in deeply unforgiving , darkened holes

Reigns of tyranny reaped as bushels of rotten fruits
 while spirit raping of better women, children, and men,
falsely rewarded homage paid from wickedly evil roots
 soon to be given eternity in their evil Master's den

Robert L. 05-25-2014


Read a book this morn on the great Empires long since destroyed,
with more of the same always filling the void.... 
Mankind simply refuses to ever learn...

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Arlene Smith June 25, 2014 at 12:03 PM To make those kings live as they make their subjects live.. I loath the do as I say and not as I do attitude.. Very insightful write my friend.. Hugs.. Arlene Robert Lindley June 26, 2014 at 8:24 AM Thank you. Now we must learn that kings were no worse than are groups of men(governments) that are given or seize too much power!

Robert Lindley May 27, 2014 at 7:40 AM Thanks so much for the encouraging comments my friend. It is not an easy subject to write about without revealing one's own biased judgments. I certainly and eagerly displayed mine...