A Simple Story - Rich Aucoin

And so the story begins with a great king of enormous wealth and power

Power so great, it seemed to get the king anything he desired

Yet, there was one desire which remained unfulfilled

The king’s desire for immortality

The king was not so naieve to think that he could live forever

But wished that he would be eternally remembered

One by one however, his attempts to be remembered failed

And his wife bore him a single daughter, and immediately fell ill after her

birth

As his wife passed away, he declared he would not love again

As time passed, his earthly monument showed signs of decay

Soon afterwards, he too showed signs of life’s corrosion

So he called forth all of the wise men in his kingdom to each bring their truth

and their wisdom

Each, however, failed to stand against refutation

As time passed, the king began to think that the immortal truth was an

impossible wish

So he borded himself in a remote wing of his palace with orders for no one to

disturb him unless they brought him an answer to his wish

And so there the king stayed, alone, waiting for death’s innevitable call

This was until one day a wise man came forth to the isolated king and declared

This too, in time, shall pass