Pathos Persistence

Resting on,
Your laurels,
Heavy,
Pressed upon,
The swelling levees,

Merge,
The urging,
Soothing,
Brevity,
Of sycophantic,
Droves to heady mugs,
Of bubbling, amber brandy,

Sipping from carafes of gold,
Flay the witness,
Young and bold,
To which he sought,
The answers told,
In tomes of rites and,
Layered folds,
Of rage...