SPREADING PLAGUE

I sit in fear it may come here
this plague advancing much too near
it has advanced without remorse
can nothing keep it from its course ?

For decades it was held in check
my hob-nailed boot upon its neck
but now it seems it's running wild
infecting woman, man, and child

So I sit behind my palace walls
hoping that this contagion stalls
but unlike all of the times past
I fear it may get me at last

Now I hear it at my door
running boots on marble floor
echos and shouts out in the hall
the plague of Freedom comes to call