Hubris wounds

An echo reflected back

but he could not hear it.

The words left without truth

so could not return true

and thus he lost them.

He could not hear it anyway.

They landed where they were meant to

and they caused the pain he intended.

As he was not a scholarly man in all

he could not see

for he did not care.

His annoyance ceased

and he was done,

to see which was chosen:

with or against.

He never for a moment

thought of the third,

that perhaps

he was entirely wrong.

And so the echo

continued on its way

and tyranny once again

won the day.

The Emperor is naked,

for his blindness,

deafness,

and indifference.

have brought him hubris.