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The Emperor's Tide

Mesmerized by his own success,
swimming naked and alone in the dark

Drowning in what he forever professed,
he rose and fell with each critic's remark

Hypnotized while diving for fame,
he sank while caught in the tide

His pleadings washed up, divested and bare,
exposed-with nowhere to hide

(Crater Lake: October: 2015)