Stepping stones

Jade stone, Engravings, Predictions.

Prophecies, Holding only, Fiction.

Masterpieces, Based on, Nightmares.

Soldiers, Parading, On corpses.

A city built, On another's, Ashes.

Dead used, As our new, Foundations.

Skulls turn, To dust, And earth.

Earth used, To grow food, And hold warmth.

The heads of, The long gone, Are stepping stones.

Climb the steps, Of rotten bodies, To your dirt throne.