Untitled: Poetry

Alan Cai

April 8, 2022

Hidden royals are unbound by their grasp to the crown

Family and fortune are ravaged through feverish fight

A kingdom bordered by heaven and flanked by the earth battles unscathed

While a miniscule enemy penetrates all

A silent winter awaits a planet besieged

Two brothers alike in nobility brawl in peace

Ants have no power outside colony

Courts have no power outside jurisdiction

The chicken will cry a piercing shriek

The hermit will crawl out of its shell

The worm will grow a skeleton

The bane of Suez will rise once more

Must the bear fly and the dragon swim

The cat may have more lives

The snowman will thirst

The breadbasket will starve