Foraging in the land of forgotten mercy <br />what remnant of civilization have you found <br />as you walk atop the heaped and naked corpses <br />where the enlightenment of the New World shines down. <br /> <br />Royal Lady, loquacious in your speech, <br />within your chequered world which one of sixteen piece? <br />Am I the outcast knight or bishop losing faith <br />or the impregnable castle moated at your gate <br />or a trifling pawn that must die to master life <br />reaching the crowning square transforming in your sight.<br /><br />Captain Cur<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/enlightenment-of-the-new-world-love-letters-to-a-lady-of-renown/
