Last Empty Tradition - Falls of Rauros

Loyal to the shapes they delineate

Intolerance the marrow of their poetry

Abject borrowed luxury

Cenotaphs pledged to daughters still living

Engraved in the foul script of disregard

Uncaring blind marriage to disrepair

Hollow architects plying frameworks

Built to author our bondage to sorrow

Broadcast the

Unfettered parlance of distance

Through the airwaves

Impregnable

To the fangs of the venomous

Emblazoned shield and

Tempered steel to bleed those

Who have sworn oaths to subjugate

Everything with a beating heart

Last empty tradition

Demand restitution

For their courtship with autocracy

That exhumes and rekindles old enmity

Smoldering in the eyes of their sons

When their parapets crumble

They will not be acquitted

Yet their blood will not stain our hands

Shatter entire mythologies

Bearing armaments of impulse

And no heart closed to the want of another

And no shape without movement