The Pain of Achilles

It's a song by Tennyson

About the end of Camelot

King Arthur's got a laurel crown

On his brow like Caesar’s got

And Lancelot is his Mark

Cleopatra is the Guinevere

The capstone on the pyramid

Is missing and we see it clear

We fear the devil and his works

Poseidon versus Odysseus

Ithaca's so far away

And on the way Sirens are heard

The lengths we go to

The extremes we take

To make our lives run

Parallel with fate

Mephistopheles keeps laughing

At Rome and Athens

As Manhattan takes a backseat

To compassion and having faith

With economic practices

Which leave the masses half in the grave

Breaking their backs for the scraps

That the elite leave on their plates

Like, "Give these to the dogs,

But not before we make them beg,

And show their loyalty all day long,

Each and every single day."

I sing the pain of Achilles

When Agamemnon betrayed him

And the decade-long war

Before Troy's devastation

What's the pace of this poem?

It's a race against time

Like I just want to get home

While my kingdoms still mine