Quantum Atlantis

Trying to use its power for conflict,

sunk this linguistic palace,

the many shades of a spectrum,

full of rooms separated

by slight degrees,

open to hosting every seaside breeze,

sunk because such marvelous complexity

made a complex where demons hid anywhere

and kings without a sense of intricacy

drowned it all in mass extremities

until there was only

what’s above and what’s below,

with every follower 

choosing one side or the other.