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His hands are soaked in butterfly blood
Wing tips pinned down
With needles bore from the voodoo Queen
Antennas detect Death sipping
Moonshine off a tea cup
Compound eyes watched helplessly
As the Krazed King Kuiper
Sharpen his tools with ox hide
Dissected guts of the butterfly
Reveals pieces of the present
Shred stained glass wings
Diffracted light into a spectrum of past and future
And when pounded by a meteorite
The butterfly blood will paint a prophecy
A prophecy that gave the Krazed King Kuiper his name
Is there no way!
No way to change this future?
Two thousand different species
All told the same story
His five thousand year old lineage
Will die with him
None of his children
Will survive their coming of age
And this renaissance
This era of wealth and art
And deviation will end here
As he sits on his silk throne
Contemplating who will take over his throne
The fumes from incense
Of dead burning caterpillars
Took over him
He began to day dream
Upon his death
There will the war of the three kingdoms
The Snakes will take over the world
They are the most powerful
And have the most gold
They are not afraid to poison
Anyone that did not follow them
The Bears will fight back
They believe in a just and free kingdom
They were the bravest
They had a loyal following
But one by one the bears fall
Because they are too honest and too just
They underestimated that many
Could be swayed by gold
The Falcons did not care
All they wanted was trade
They are willing to fund their enemy
If it is suited them
They see everything
Hear everything
Know everything
But you can never tell
What their true intentions are
Or where their loyalties lie
All across the land
There is ash
There is decay
When the wind spoke
It said
Let them burn
Let all of them burn
As the Kazed King Kuiper
Came back from his day dream
He said
This cannot be
He leaves the great hall
Goes down the dark tower
Into the private garden
And entered his greenhouse
He began smashing butterflies with his meteorite
The meteorite that was a gift from the heavens
To King Albert
The first in his line
For bring peace during the war between
The spirits and the humans
As he sits on the floor
Staring at his hand
Soaked in butterfly blood
An image appeared to him
A giant metalmarks butterfly
Its wings span the width of the greenhouse
Its body was twice as tall as a man
And it spoke
Metalmark Butterfly: It said it is time Kuiper
Krazed King Kuiper: How dare you call me by my name, I am King
Metalmark Butterfly: You are no king to me. It is time for the prophecy to fulfill itself.
Krazed King Kuiper: But why? Why have you haunted me all these years with impending death?! Have I not given prophecy to the people? Have I not given them the fire of life? Have i not brought the world progress? Have I not brought riches and power to the world? Why?
Metalmark Butterfly: During the first of your line, we have granted your kind with the gift of sight. We allowed countless of butterflies to be sacrifice for this gift. But your kind have done nothing to benefit anything else on this planet except yourself. We gave you sight but yet you are still blind. We will wipe the planet clean of your kind and it will begin with your death.
Krazed King Kuiper: It was my forefathers who did it! Not me! I can change! We can change! We still have time to change!
Metalmark Butterfly: Yes you are right, the time for change is NOW!
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http://sahibtorun.com/2014/06/11/his-majestys-last-day-dream/
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released June 11, 2014
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