We’ll all go down like empires

And burn to ash and dust,

For nothing is eternal

No matter how robust.

Rome thought they were forever

Standing strong like olive trees,

But as they’d done to Carthage

They burned while they were seized.

Poempii crumbled in a day

When Mount Vesuvius erupt.

Ashes piled on the city and

It was never recunstruct.

Persepolis though themselves mighty

And a mighty city they were,

So to see it burn so easily

Was a shock to all the world.

Urs death was not as quick as most

As the city dwindled from neglect.

All the wars, famines, and drouts

Left the city in a wreck.

The Akkadian empire was

The first empire that we know,

And it wasn’t only war that killed them

But the drouts and plants that wouldn’t grow.

We’ll all go down like empires,

And the greatest cities of the world,

For if even they can fall

There is nothing eternal.