EMPIRE WITHOUT A HEART
It was not built it was bled into existence.
He replaced compassion with conquest, dreams with dread.
No child smiled, no song survived within its walls.
Hope suffocated beneath banners of order.
He outlawed love it distracted from control.
Statues of him wept blood in the city square.
He fed on loyalty, starved empathy.
His rule was cold, efficient, absolute.
The empire functioned flawlessly because none dared falter.
But in the center of all glory... there beat no heart.
by Abdullah khan
