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Redress, A Winner is Never the Victor

by Amanda R





Think back to the battles of troy

The branding of the Vikings

And old English wars

Where people standstill in a fervent dream

Crushed by the abhorrence, the lies, and greed

There stands a victor

Rember the tales of the old Gangus Kahn

The addor of Narcissus, the beauty & pain

The relish of Midus and the gold that stained

There lays a victor


Place to place the battles won

Veni Vidi Vici conquered and gone

Spirited values on top of the world

Hubris misguide, ego reanimated

Reborn another victor

Chanting and cries, Crowns of gold

Bloodstained diamonds and tales spoken by ghosts

The mist carries through the heartache is reach

The victor still remains asleep,


Born from a battle, born from a cry

Contests and wishes a bloodied sky

Impassioned insincerity overcomes all

The victor still sleep standing tall

Placed in a coffin never buried or laid

The victor still sleeps

The winner awakes

For all battles won, the gold & the blood

Cries of terror, shouts of joy

The ones that lost awaken once more

While the victor lays trapped behind lore


Ceasar befallen, Midus preserved

Lothrbrok dead & Gangus defeated

Won with prase left barren by love

Enlightened by crowds darkened through the days

Stars burning in the sky

Mirth searing in the air spreading ashes through crowds

Crowds who lost gather beneath the tales

For a Victor, luck is often left exhausted

Love ceasing, capsuled in gore & enriched in stone

There laid the victors imprisoned in time

Remembered only by strangers and tales of merciless epics

Contrasted by the crowds who praised and cried


The loser often lives, yet the victor frozen in glory

Left without love or lust, desire or dreams

Only a fantasy that will beguile & disconnect

A victor may not be the winner in truth

For there they sleep in the bed they made

Never woken out of fear Left without soul or body,

Only ego remains, Bones hanged, tall and high, no peace or rest

The victor only in pen, hardly a winner, a myth of conquest, a tale of riches misplaced

Title benighted, beset by time, declaimed & defiled

Confined to times eyot, no harbor to call back home

No lee or lustihead, marred by nightshade, blinded by the sun


Redress, a winner is never the victor


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