18 Rabbit from The Poisoner by White Crone

12) 18 RABBIT

HIDING IN AN OCEAN OF GREEN, A KINGDOM CENTURIES MADE UNSEEN
WITH MEMORY PRESERVED OF A KING ON HIS THRONE
A MAN MADE DIVINE, APOTHEOSIS IN STONE FOR ETERNITY

EMERGING FROM THE JUNGLES OF TIME, THE REMNANTS OF HIS NATION SUBLIME
WITH MACHETE THAT FLIES, AND THE SPADE DIGGING DOWN
NOW, HERE IS REVEALED THE MYSTICAL CROWN OF THE JAGUAR

TEMPLES SET ALIGNED WITH THE STARS, BONDING MAN WITH HEAVENS AFAR
BETWEEN EARTH AND SKY THE SOVEREIGN DID STAND
WITH BLOOD SACRIFICE AND HIS SERPENTS IN HAND, HE REIGNED

OF MAIZE MADE, AND THE BLOOD OF THE GODS, ASCENDING STAIRS NONE OTHER MAY TROD
HE WAS LESS THAN A GOD, YET MORE THAN A MAN
HIS NAME SHALL BE KNOWN AS KING OF COPAN FOREVER!

UNDER HIS RULE A GREAT METROPOLIS DID RISE
ATOP HIS PYRAMID IT SPREADS BEFORE HIS EYES
AMIDST THE BLOODLETTING HE REIGNS
THE FIELDS MADE FERTILE BY HIS VEINS

WITH REPUTATION OF A PATRON KING ADORED
ARTISTS AND ARCHITECTS, THEY FLOCK IN BY THE SCORE
THEY DID CREATE THIS ROYAL PLACE
ONE THOUSAND RENDERINGS OF HIS FACE

THE ART OF WAR HAD BEEN BY BALL AND COURT REPLACED
BRINGING SERENITY TO ONCE A BRUTAL PLACE
YET JEALOUS RIVALS MADE THEIR PLAN
TO BE USURPERS OF HIS LAND

A SWIFT ABDUCTION MARKED THE ENDING OF HIS REIGN
THE PEOPLE WEPT FOR THEIR IMMORTAL KING IN CHAINS!
HOW SWIFTLY SLICED THE HAND OF DOOM
SENDING HIM HEADLESS TO HIS TOMB


IT'S ALWAYS BEEN THAT THOSE WHO USE THEIR WEALTH AND POWER
TO LEAVE BEHIND WORKS OF SUCH GRANDEUR-
THEIR NAMES SHALL BE KNOWN
IT SHALL BE A LEGACY FAR BEYOND MEASURE
BEYOND EDIFICES AND TREASURE
A GIFT TO ALL HUMANITY

• Copan
• Dual Guitar
• Female Fronted Metal
• Mayan
• Melodic Metal
• Metal
• NWOTHM
• Traditional Heavy Metal
• Uaxaclajuun Ubʼaah Kʼawiil
• bass guitar
• epic metal
• history metal
• mythology
• Portland