***
I never sought your embrace,
You taught, I learned,
And hatred filled the empty space.
A Sultan and his throne,
Never a father in all but name,
Death to your thousand years of reign.
As I take your world away,
As Depravity takes its place,
The ones you tried to save...
Will be gone without a trace.
The kingdom you have made,
Usurped with a fallen blade,
By the one whose name you long to hear,
The one whose name they've grown to fear.
Say goodbye; now it's all mine.
Everything from the desert to the great sky,
It belongs to me, and me alone,
All I see, all I own...
A punishment you bestowed.
Call me Highness,
Call me Sultan,
...Silence.
I'm the Fall.
...
...
...
...Your kin won't find the strength to rise in your name,
Pity.
***
{Inside The Projection}
There was no {Congratulations,} no {Break.}
The title dropped, but the world didn't stop spinning.
Malik stood there, right where he was before.
He'd reached too high a point in Embodiment.
