Out
of the ancient deserts
Where
sphinxes lived in mudbrick temples
There
arose a benevolent winged king.
His
name was Cyrus the Great.
He
hatched a dragon in the land of Media.
Under
the guise of religious revival.
The
dragon he called Persia.
Persia
quickly grew
As
it swallowed up nations and old empires
The
dragon swallowed the rest of Media as a snack
Then
picked the bones clean of Assyria
It
was a nice appetizer.
Following
the Tigris and Euphrates
He
had Babylon for dinner.
For
desert the dragon found Anatolia’s delight
Picking
his teeth clean with Egypt and Israel.
Under
Cyrus and his sons
There
was tolerance.
The
dragon didn’t discriminate.
He
didn’t ask his new foods to be digested into the new country
They
liked him for it
As
they wrote pages praising him
In
history and religion.
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