Caligula

when he was a boy                      
Legionaries teased him            
calling him little boots                
while laughing it up      
           
knowing one day soon                
he'd rule over all of them              
his plan for revenge was    
removing their tongues              
   
with a house full of enemies,     
father was left for dead and           
the women were imprisoned    
Caligula lived but with bad luck          
         
raised by his father's killer,      
he felt hell in his head--    
turning more sadistic and    
loosing capacity for love          
   
stories of his decadence      
alarmed Romans out West         
pain became the pleasure        
within his empire of blood          
   
the families of his enemies       
were killed if they protested    
forced to watch Caligula         
torture thier loves ones    
   
memories of his sister                
being his only true friend        
birthed sick fantasies of    
shameless unchecked lust    
   
orgies, killings, and rapes          
now, he wanted incest            
his sister couldn't say no            
The Senate said, Enough          
   
the people lost trust and         
Caligula was found dead,  
covered in blood with thirty     
stab wounds in his stomach  
          
his tale was tragic--void of  
compassion or conscience    
a tale Rome tried to erase         
The Tale of Emperor Caligula