Alexandra

Powerless To Prevent The Inevitable Catastrophe

Princess of angelic beauty, 
pearl of Asia Minor,
Guardian of a bastide 
that fate promises to doom.

To the greatest poet of Olympus, 
you deny the melody of his lyre,
and in his wrath, your imprisoned voice 
foretells your homeland’s fire.

You cry, you scream: 
“Beware the noble conquest of the man to come!”
Yet fall in deafness these aphasic warnings, 
lost to everyone.

And while the city burns, 
another legend unfolds,
where Agile strength 
meets hidden flaw - and Breaks.

All, or nearly all, 
will perish from this greed.
Your name made emblem of a future
seeded by this deed.

Powerless to prevent the inevitable catastrophe.
But what would the story be from the other side of the coin?