The Throne On the Beach
Plodding slowly across the sand
Walks a man his head hangs down
While clutched in his withered hand
The remnants of a broken crown
Soaring over untamed land
Tolls a bell across the town
Shaking legs barely can stand
Upon the man's face twists a frown
Memories come and memories go
Like the glaring sun and howling moon
As the ocean tides ebb and flow
They’ll wash away his footprints soon
Time reeling back a solitary day
When he was young and he was bold
He use to laugh and use to pray
When on his face joy was told
Wouldn’t be caught or be tame
Couldn’t be bought or be sold
Not by lies nor by fame
Not by power nor by gold
Traveling across the realms of men
His drifting life was his own
Content he trekked where and when
Though he traveled all alone
He wanted nothing cared for naught
Until he came across the throne
It quietly summoned up his thought
Sinking its roots to his very bone
Standing vacant made of stone
It cooed its siren like a tune
Beckoning with its alluring moan
Glowing bright like the harvest moon
Overcome by simple fatigue
It held him in its gilded lie
Powerless to go another league
Promises given he couldn’t deny
He took a sit upon the stage
As the hourglass sand began to run
His fate scrawled across the page
As the nameless one cocked the gun
And trying with all his might
To rise as the day began to fall
Eyes now open to his plight
Found tangled in a labyrinth hall
Finding himself drowning from the weight
Stumbling in the failing light
Trapped in life’s unforgiving fate
Now it’s too late to make it right
A crown of cost laid on his brow
Thrust upon him with putrid hate
Nameless One forcing him to bow
Living hell served on a plate
Clinging to his dying hope
Begged for answers at heavens gate
Gripping an unraveling rope
His life, his choice did confiscate
Copyright © Jeremy Moore | Year Posted 2011
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