and as a fool
who strives with mime
to offer up a mirror
for his master's fame
so do your lords
who are but mimicked
by you yourselves
retain your spirit
within their own bound form

your image lives in them
as long as you prevail
but if in time you do decease
so too they diminish
bearing you a bare
and fruitless day

for base idols
hold your highest goal
stifled leashed
in worship
you are bound
to lose it all