Expire

If you were to expire -

What relic could keep an empire;

What moment-of-change must transpire 

That contains such a wretched – choir.

If a candle were to expire –

What place should be the empire;

What endless darkness must transpire;

What voice shall become a holy – choir?

If you wish to expire;

Should too -  the unholy empire;

Should all your words also transpire?

For the endless silence shall quiet the choir!

If Father Time refused to expire

Should we seek throughout the empire;

Should we see that curse and glory are about to transpire;

Should we make the sage and the obtuse become the – choir.

If Truth’s keys and noted-emboldens flourish upon the choir

And the old kingdom remnants – transpire;

Shall there stand a new realm - of an ethereal empire?

Pray - pray for the day;  for time is set to expire.