Outliving a lie

Is sweet revenge,

When the machinery collapses

And breathes its last 

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Outliving a lie

Keeps a memory alight

Long after the shadows

Of its killers have fled

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Outliving a lie

Supplants the despot

Of some far away dawn

Filling the streets with fanfare

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Outliving a lie

Is a tried-and-true menace

In the cold eyes of kings

Who snake away into the night