CONQUERED

With all its beauty
And ruins in view
Standing tall
With scars of bravery
As the pillars fall

And crumble in war
Bleeding for humanity,
A lonely soul,
Holding on
His faith shaken,
Once a king...now a scavenger

Wandering on

In search of life,
A sign of new beginnings

His only hope,
All that he's ever held on to

Slipping away
A lost love,
A lost life,
What seem now, like another lifetime

As he sits in the shadows of what was once his home

His kingdom beloved,
And he shuts his eyes, lays his sword down,

At the end he can see,
A shining light.
The last thing he ever will

like a metaphor befitting
That like him shone bright
And then got lost in the dark....