SHEPSESKARE

Even the least of those

ruling over the suffering masses

has a name echoing through millennia,

a name without a face or activities

to boast about, just

a name on damaged lists of kings

and

the meagre remains of a pyramid

barely begun; yet

great minds struggle to give

reality to the name -

an usurping uncle

or

an orphaned infant dying

on his mother's breast?

Thus a few months on the throne

indeed grant immortality

as the great masses

with their toil-filled days

are but dust and sand.

08.07.2020