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The blazing day was over

And among the sands we walked

Through the desert night

We saw a city's walls

Through the withered gates

We soon found our way

To find an empty ruin

Silent as the grave

Soon enough we came across

Piles of gold and jewels

Shining in the moonlight

What I saw could not be true

Who would leave this here

In a city cold and dead

Desperate for an answer

We looked to the palace ahead

Among the heaps of gold

Bodies lay strewn

Skeletal remains

The city was a tomb

Famine stricken land

And water running dry

No matter how wealthy

The city was built to die

What was once a home of life

Had become a place of death

Rich beyond our dreams

Yet fleeting 'til last breath

The queen upon her throne

Almost looked alive

Yet wealth could not retain her

It seems greed is how she died