# Long Live the King

By [My Writing](https://paragraph.com/@my-writing) · 2021-12-29

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Long live the King  
He has the best medicine and tech in the world  
But he lies still in the best clothes on the best bed  
He’s got doctors with no timelines  
Men with thick midlines and greasy hairlines  
They shuffle through their books then shuffle in a beeline  
To the doors with no answers

The women come with youth in their sleeves  
Youth in their posture, youth in their gaze  
Looking down on the silent man in his silent robes  
Is he dead?  
No, he is just waiting for you  
To wake him up in the right way  
The right words and the right moments  
Will break the spell that keeps him still

But WHY Why should we waste our beauty and our youth Our posture and our everything For this man, even if he is the King of whatever? But WHY When he would only see us as objects to own Why should I give him everything that Makes me who I am Just to keep him, He who I know nothing of, Alive?

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*Originally published on [My Writing](https://paragraph.com/@my-writing/long-live-the-king)*