A new king enthroned,
But the ghost soon tells his son
Something is rotten.

Sometime friends arrive
But the prince is distracted;
The play's the thing now.

To be? Maybe not.
The prince and his ex-lover.
Perplexed and orphaned.

Travellers return;
A foreboding duel forged
Through revenge and grief.

Lifting up a skull
Is but one notion of death
In this bloody end.