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Sunrise

New dawn

Light bathes the earth once more

Frost thaws

New growth

I feel new life take hold

Sunrise, sun fall

Darkness clings to these cold walls

Nothing breathes

Nothing grows

Nothing lives

And no one knows

Lord of this place, light dare not penetrate

A blind monarch in a kingdom of despair

Reflects on hollow conquests

Sips from a poisoned chalice

Waged a battle for a shadow crown

A kingdom which never existed

The horns fell silent at my coronation

None to praise the blind monarch

Glasses empty, no words spoken

None to praise the blind monarch

Funeral inauguration

None to praise the blind monarch

Head hung heavy, wreathed in shadow

None to praise the blind monarch

Mind corrupted, frail, naked

None to praise the blind monarch

Solitary ceremony

Performed in blackness and filth

Witnessed by the worms

With bare hands I buried all I lost

And am what remains

Sunrise, sun fall

Darkness clings to these cold walls

Nothing breathes

Nothing grows

Nothing lives

And no one knows

Sunrise, sun fall

Darkness clings to these cold walls

Nothing breathes

And nothing grows

None to praise the blind monarch