When Claudius met Caligula

A Roman Emperor 41AD by Lawrence Alma-Tadema

The grinding wheels of time crush the truth like an unpunished crime

while history rolls past as a haunting echo, a taunting rhyme

and a royal fate falls on a blade’s edge and cuts off the li…

By the end of all this may the last one standing

pick the shades and colours for the branding

and may the cause find a safe landing

politics and foils notwithstanding

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