Trembling, trepidation - the sentence uttered into stone now cast
Congregation - gathered close to witness judgment passed
Unrepentant - the wanderer accepts his end, yet scornful
Unrelenting - a passion that no soul could break nor bend
Eight years in the darkness - tortured, confined and alone
Led to the palace - the word handed down from the throne
Above the roaring masses - the flames now cast toward the sky
His final performance: to shun the cross he’d forever deny
The shadow of ideas stands to loom -
The cold and black embers warm the tomb