Sometimes I Write Poems, Sometimes I Write Songs

35. I Sat On My Wall

I sat atop my kingdoms walls

The only place where I could see it all

I remember how my world had been

Back when I thought that I could win

The light touching all the life below

Breathe in so deep, ignore the crow

But every Wiseman now should know

After the Sun, falleth the snow

But I sat there on my kingdoms walls

For I knew that it would never fall

At peace in the world I called my home

My life, my world, greater than Rome

If only I had known what a mess I was in

A hole dug deeper and deeper, fueled by my sin

My pain for all to see, engraved on my skin

And now what's outside reflects what lies deep within

I had sat there on my kingdoms walls

Saw what once was great but now is small

I was blinded by the light of pride

In my ignorance my wall had died

Now my life is crashing down

As I burn up with broken town

While my kingdom in its tears it drowns

For their useless queen has lost her crown

Now in the silence they sing

As The Fates cut their string

Surrounded by greed

I hadn't seen what they'd need

So I've left them to die

As I sit here and cry

I wish I could fly

If I could restart, I'd try

But as I sat there on my kingdoms walls

The pride always before the fall

On the wall that I had claimed to own

Beauty and grace, now blood and bone

I have fallen off my kingdoms wall

Alone and lifeless as a broken doll

And all the Kings horses and all the Kings men

Could never put me back together again