Deliberate steps
Escaping the mist
Going down and through the complex
Moths to a flame 
An Egyptian mystery
Mummified
In history and destiny
Deliberate steps
As the silence sings
Beneath the warm sands 
Valley of the Kings
Deliberate steps

Approaching the coveted prize
Deliberate steps
Cool stone shadows
A crowd of awed eyes
There…
Resting carefully bereft of rust
Centerpiece cornered
The massive sarcophagus
Is it empty?
Is it full?
Curiosity peeks
The Hour Glass freezes
Nobody speaks
There…
Lying on top is the great bull
Splendiferous in ebony
The majestic head turns 
Deliberately
As he establishes eye contact
With just that one
A predicated moment 
Long time now come
Thick lips begin to move 
Deliberately
And the chamber fills 
A soundless Pharaonic echo
Bulls and Kings
Horns to horns and toe to toe
And…

The desert shifts and sings
Of
Bulls and Kings
They are…
Cosmic Things


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