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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 look to the palace ahead...

Among the heaps of gold bodies lay strewn

Skeletal remains, this city was a tomb

Famine stricken land and water running dry

No matter how wealthy, this 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...