
Crowds climb marble steps, anticipation roaring.
Merchants cheer, flutes play, drums echo.
Women stretch, poised like statues alive.
Laurel crowns glint in torchlight’s glow.
You raise a hand, ready to begin.
But clouds already roll across the sky.










Crowds climb marble steps, anticipation roaring.
Merchants cheer, flutes play, drums echo.
Women stretch, poised like statues alive.
Laurel crowns glint in torchlight’s glow.
You raise a hand, ready to begin.
But clouds already roll across the sky.