Theme Thursday - Survival (Poem)
r/writngprompts prompt: [TT] Theme Thursday - Survival
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They say screams are the worst part

When locked away in Hell

No reprieve from my torture

still stuck inside a cell

 

Those cries for help never cease

They live inside my head

Lied to when promised silence

When I was struck down dead

 

Told my empire was failing

And my lineage feared lost

I bargained with the devil

with just my soul, the cost

 

The empire would then prosper

Their king forever known

Statues placed in my honor

My legacy in stone

 

But I never should have struck

The deal that I had made

For I was stabbed in the back

And in the end betrayed

 

My trusted friend a usurper

His true colors did show

He then stole my kingdom

Deceitful seeds he sowed

 

He then enacted his plans

Removed me from that place

Destroyed all my legacy

Until there was no trace

 

And so I sit, stuck in Hell

A never ending wait

Although dead, I will survive

And then avenge my fate

 

I will rise out from the ground

When I escape this cage

Reclaim what is my birthright

The world will know my rage