Witness and Participant

1399:
Timur, ruler of central
Asia, destroys all Delhi.

Of course he didn't.
No one animal, no soul
Takes down a city alone.

He had a better army.
Somehow, they answered to him.
They made him the scourge of God.
A man on the wall,

As lame as Timur,
Watched his city fall, witness
And participant. No life
Exceeds its own perspective.