the witches of the Scottish play were making menace in the skies
The Prince studied the heavens
felled by war
he asks the sky Gods
why does war endure ?
war endures because young men love it and old men love it in them
The Emperor astride his noble white beast examined the Prince
set among the burning snows of defeat the Russian flag is stripped of its contents by weird winds screaming through the universe leaving it tattered robbed of import
threadless
he spares the warrior
they are equal
one in defeat one in pride