Living Kingdom

A memory coated in blue Of dire times; a castle of gloom A basement filled with the buried dead My throne within, painted in red My tower gone, I stepped out alone In to the mist - an attempt to atone My basement torched, ignited by grief With monsters dead, I no longer sleep That kingdom crumbled in youth The walls I built made enemy of truth But still I stand, a victim of self A treasury lost, it was traded for wealth The silence turned into words From inner self, out of this world The mirror’s glass shattered by light The darkness cleansed, granting me sight A memory I leave in the past For what is gone has brought me at last To a place clear and true This garden is my kingdom renewed