Tyranny's Wheel

Fulcrum that balances tyranny's scale
Inferior-grade ore readily shared
Penurious pawns encased by chain mail

Lives bartered to make the state's coffers swell
Earnest stock with low interest rate paired
Fulcrum that balances tyranny's scale

Provisioned hands hustled down a marked trail
Divested hearts in a two-pronged clamp snared
Penurious pawns encased by chain mail

Mass of flesh covered with bondage's' veil
Duty's moniker with passive fate squared
Fulcrum that balances tyranny's scale

In fertile plains, desolate valleys felled
For tenured, generals' blood lust, not spared
Penurious pawns encased by chain mail

Cheap corpses paying indentured states' bail
Culled chattel, leaders' indemnity bared
Penurious pawns encased by chain mail
Fulcrum that balances tyranny's scale