Status Quo

You came from modest, humble backgrounds.
Of course, all the moguls do.
Your climb to the top took many a'years
of blood, sweat, tears.
You forgot to mention deceit, treachery, betrayal-
How kind of you to censor out the truth from your own lie.

But what goes up must plummet into chaos,
And when you fall to your wonderfully tragic denouement
And land face-first in the dirt and remains of all whom you have tortured,
Remember this:
That the world will not topple with you,
But rather sit on your throne and cackle
As you have fallen back into the orbit of mediocrity
To fulfill the destiny promised to us all:

"From ashes you came,
To ashes you will return."

And so you have.