Caligula: A Tyrant

Gaiusas a child went with his father Dressed as a soldier, going on campaign Troops knicknamed him Caligula, "little boots" He set no value upon human life, This psychopath, who laughed whilst killing others Who slept with his three sisters, like the Pharoahs By incest sought to save his own blood line Men spread gold coins for him to walk upon He had a temple built to worship him A life sized statue of himself within Here wealthy Romans brought him daily offerings Peacocks, flamingos, to this cruel god Called ‘The viper sleeping in Rome's bosom' He spared his limping uncle Claudius, To mock, torment and jeer at as he chose He auctioned away lives of gladiators Set his own head upon the gods of Rome This skinny, sickly, balding murderous Caesar Whose true love was his stallion Incitatus Gave it a marble stall, an ivory manger He loved to dress in silk, in womens' dresses Worejewels and fashionable female shoes Chariot racing was another passion Performing songs, and dancing while near nude Forcing his consuls to become an audience "Let them hate me, so long as they fear me." He waged war upon Neptune, Great Sea God, Ordered his men to lash the ocean waves. And gather seashells as the spoils of war. He spent a fortune on two massive barges To sail on the volcanic Lake Nemi Afloating temple to Goddess Diana, The second, a floating palace rigged for vice Caligula talked to the moon at night And planned to move from Rome to Alexandria Shifting the core of power from Italy A guard called Cassius Chaerea stopped the terror Stabbing Little Boots by his luxury home Just as his forebear Gaius Julius Caesar Had met his bloody death on the flags of Rome And after, all his statues were demolished Coins stamped with his head were melted down And so ended the evil of a monster Caligula, the deadly tyrant-clown