What's an empire?
What immediately comes to mind is either
«Star Wars» plus MMORPG, or that
Forgotten school lesson of history of the ancient world
Someone's laurel wreath – and that's more or less it...
Ah, wait, there's more
You can hear an even louder «empire» word
When there are conversations, disputes and debates
Fights for territory, wars, quarrels and tension
There's so much coolness, bragging, blood and smolder in this word
But I’ve never done well at Latin in school
I think the word meant «control»
Beria, Tiberius, Marcus Aurelius. Someone, what's an empire?
Silence...
The dead don't care for polemics
Where is Napoleon, the Mongols, the Sumerians today?
And the thousand-year Reich stood for only an instance
I call something else an «empire»:
Something a dreamer and an entrepreneur believe in and raise
And it grows out of an idea:
The root and stem are covered with a concrete plate, but the flower frees itself from the shade
And for every such story there's an empire
And we didn't repeat and follow, nor in a choir we sung, or used any templates
Instead, we wanted to rub their noses in it
On a beaten path, when everything's ready is easy
But you won't gain an empire, the history won't notice it
We're self-made, that's why they bode to us

Empire's not important, important is it being from scratch
On the basis of DIY and nothing to start with
My starting capital is those who I started with
Not everyone builds an empire. It’s important to build an empire
But make it yours, or someone else will build it instead
Who? Some authority or a local prince; and to an
Extent that these strategists deftly divide us on Kongo, Liberia,
On spheres of influence, spit confidently!
And start your own empire