Jericho

[Luzifer]

Jericho you stood once here
A whisper in unhearing ears
Your name now lost to veil of tears
And petty mortal raving fears

Once stood walls of vaunting height
Once stood rubble, ghost of plight
Now stands naught at all but light
No cornerstone to meet my sight

Once you were specter, ghast
Haunting image reach from past
To tear at mortal minds and cast
their folly back into empty vast

but now none know your name
no vestige of you remains
nor nations who your clutches claimed
not a single soft refrain

fires scorched this planet bare
singed the souls and burned the air
cast us all ‘fore Charon’s stare
and all was gone in dying flare

Now I the relic share your fate
In this empty world now narrate
The passing of my home and state
What you have taught, learned too late