1

back again!
I declare
high on my horse
ridden through so many
****** battles

I am back,
again!
I yell to the heavens
and to the people that
I scarcely know

I screamed:
I am back!
and I’m here
to rule my land
once again!

but as I looked out upon my land
I wondered at who I was screaming at
and the tumble **** that rolled past me
was the only audience I could find
in this desert place I call my domain

2

the earth is dry
and
the rivers dry
and
the mountains wet
but only with cold
snow

the trees grow already dead
the wildlife only exist in starving vultures

this desert land I call my home
is frozen in time
at the worst point
it has ever faced

but somehow
in this time of frozen time
a letter came to me
with a dagger
in the envelope

it read on the side:
“cut forth
the future”

taking a stab at the air with it
I felt it’s perfection
the balance
the girth
the weight
were all right
and then I struck with a jolt
the wall of the very castle
I had built with my own hands
and the crack grew,

it grew
and grew

up my perfect marble walls,
up the concrete poured oh-so-carefully,
up through the paintings,
up through the art,
up up up
it went
till the ceiling cracked
the walls collapsed
and my house was no more
than rubble

3**

it was as if water were rushing out of an ancient dam

the fields turned green
the rivers flowed blue
and the forests burst
with the plants of a billion
colors

my land had returned to time again,
it’s king having been released
from his prison

but this land,
that is mine,
was reborn a different beast
and I had no knowledge of
how to reclaim it

I was without home
I was without friend
I was without tool
I was only with myself

but I knew that’s all I needed,
so I got up and dusted off myself
and as I walked out of my ruins
for the last time I picked up my will
and began to tame the land once
again