There Is An Empire Poem by Chukwuebuka Adebayo

There is an empire,
In that empire no mortal lives;
On its lane no human travels,
In that empire, no day nor night;
Upon its sky, no darkness nor light,
There's no burst of rains and dew
No woods, Nor green grass strew
Yet no drought nor dearth of food;
There no man sets stones apart to build,
But in that empire there a hidden throne;
And an invisible emperor, On that throne,
Some unseeable gladiators, beside the throne;
Unseeable gladiators beside the throne,
Invisible emperor on that throne;
Hidden throne in the empire,
No man sets stones apart to build;
Yet no drought nor dearth of food,
No burst of rains and dew;
No woods, Nor green grass strew
No darkness nor light upon its sky
In that empire no day nor night,
No human travels on its lane;
No mortal lives in that empire,
This empire is in the world to come