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Lavished with praise

Through the sheltered gift

Reared on a promise

Worthless entitlement

Pillage ideas from the memory

Thief of forgotten pasts...

Expropriate the sounds

Plagiarize the texts

Conceal & squander

Til betrayed by unwinding truth

Bury the influence

As theft reflections shatter

Glory fleeting, cursory waves

The relative first cccurrence

Broken to ruin in derivative legacy

Kneel to all that came before

Wallow as a later bloodline

Stakes its claim

Looted treasures herald high

On a tomb of devouring sand

Deteriorated, splattered

Walls of experience

The only lesson learned

...repeat & steal

Spoils of recurring wars

Hammering the secrecy

Emulate the mastery

Of original sins

The thievery envisaged

Unseeing eyes ensorcelled

As if the dream were not damned

To be redreamed

Expropriate the sounds

Plagiarize the texts

Conceal & squander

Til betrayed by unwinding truth

Bury the influence

As the blurred reflection shatters

Glory fleeting, cursory waves

The relative first cccurrence

Broken to ruin in derivative legacy

Kneel to all that came before