Power's Weakness
The crazed obsession
to rule the lives of others
rends the ruler's humanity
into tatters,
feeds, fills and bloats
his overweening vanity,
deludes the ego
with invincibility.
But stripped of his mask,
the tyrant shall fall apart
for pomp and vainglory hide
a sham, hollow heart
of a cursed, cowering canine
that creeps to crawl
through labyrinthine caves
of what's left of his soul!
Copyright © Romeo Naces | Year Posted 2008
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