i set out to rule the world

i set out to rule the world just with the imagination of a little boy. running around with my wooden sword and my paper shield ready to knock down all the bad guys protecting my king and queen. the ocean trembles when i enter with my king and the sand cowers beneath our feet. my kingdom hovers above it all. having the king by my side enjoying it all feeling unstoppable. the queen relaxing while we protect her. happy with my imagination sadly realism comes along. i set out to rule the world with my wooden sword and my paper shield. i am going to be king one day but for now, i want to be the prince. let me rule the world besides my king and my queen. my imagination saving myself from what hurts, the realism that i didn’t have a king. the queen weeping and in her sorrows, the young prince looks out to the ocean that is no longer trembling with his presence and the sand that no longer cowards beneath his feet. the kingdom is falling and the king is nowhere to be found. looking at the queen the prince doesn't know how to feel so he gets his wooden sword and his paper shield and goes out on his own to protect his queen. the ocean doesn't tremble, the sand doesn't cower but the prince will still go out. the young prince telling the ocean that one day it will tremble in his presence and the prince tells the sand that one day it will cower beneath his feet. the young prince with the queen looking out of the window and saying what could have been. king nowhere to be found and the prince knows nothing of who the king was. he just has his imagination of when he set out to rule the world with his wooden sword and his paper shield with the king by his side. all the creatures in the land respected the king, the waves were brave but always retreated when the king was coming. everything was perfect the queen had her happily ever after but only if she knew that the story would continue. the prince trying to remember his king but all he remembers is his power over the land. there is no king and the kingdom is going under the queen doesn't want her baby to be hurt but knows that her baby has to be king. her baby will no longer be a prince but will be king but he knows that he is not ready. the king would awake and draw his sword when the sun would appear and would muster the moon to come out when it was time to rest. the prince not knowing to summon the sun and the moon weeps to the queen saying he can't be the king. the queen looks at her baby and says you have to find your way of being king. don't look at who the king was before, look at the king that we need. we need a  king that will not run off to the shadows of the mountains. The prince tells himself i convey no coincidence to the king prior to me. the prince is not the king of the land but still acts like a prince. no creatures, no water particles, no sand particles respect the new king as they only sense a youth prince trying to be someone he is not. the king tells the queen that he will step down as the king because he does not want the title of someone who walked away. he wants to be known as the prince who defied all the kings before him as no king before he did anything for the land and for the queen. the prince will rule the world not with the power of his name but with the power of his mind and the power of his heart. the years wore on my sleeve and changed my heart and my mind to want to become someone of character, not someone who cowered. every day the prince goes out to the land demanding his respect and telling every creature and particle that they will remember his name forever. the prince kept growing and growing into this person that every creature, person, and every little particle respected. the prince one night went to the ocean and swam for hours just thinking and thinking and all the creatures of the sea made a circle around him to protect him. the prince said aloud "i don't know who i am, but now i know who i'm not" and not even a second went by and the ocean trembled and the sand cowered beneath his feet and all the creatures told the prince that they will do anything for him and the kingdom will never go under. the prince swam back to his kingdom and asked his queen why did his king leave? the queen told him that the king made his own decisions and that it is his fault for missing out and not seeing the person you have become. you are our leader you are a better leader than him and you will continue being a great leader for me and for all the land. and son i am so proud of the man you have become, yes you are my prince but you are still my son and i love you. you had a dream when you were small to rule the world and now you have conquered it with the people who have been here for you. the prince went to his room and got a box from under his bed and it said "rule the world" and from the box, he took out his wooden sword and his paper shield and yelled WE WILL ALL SET OUT TO RULE THE WORLD and all the creatures and all the people of the kingdom yelled in rejoice. the prince went to sleep and in his dreams, the king tells him, son, you did it your way. and the prince woke up gasping for air and just said: "i set out to rule the world and i did it my way".