Holiday update

I am currently on my semester holidays for 1 month.. in USA/Canada... I came up with a new poem I have been working on since yesterday. Here it is:

Rise and Fall

Many a great empire time immaterial arose,
Others the witness to destruction,
Conquerors demonstrated their power to impose.

Many a conqueror succeeded with military might,
They put on display their sheer power,
Emerging victorious fight after fight,
Opponents alike could only do as much as cower.

There were many great conquerors – Julius Caesar and Alexander the Great,
Who ruled vast empires and knew only how to kill and enslave,
But consigned to history was their fate,
As power to their head went and hence did not know how to behave.

All great civilisations rise and fall,
Mughals, British, Incans and Dutch to name just a few,
But how many of these do future generations recall?
Imperative it is on us to give the empires their due.

Compose on: 7 July 2008
By: Paulash Jishnu Proteek Chatterjee