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You muttered lies and empty threats With the intention to collapse all that we’d built together. Our empire was structurally sound And flawless to the last detail But you've crumpled it With your angry footprints And your inexplicable ability To reek havoc upon the unsuspecting citizens You created dysphoria in city streets The muffled screams of children pressed into the breast of their mothers Clinging to their shirts For all the life that their tiny bodies had experienced Appeared to be crashing down. In a nanosecond everything changed Our quiet halcyon would erupt into a volcano of misery You played your violin on the rooftops Listening to everything you had ever known and come to love, disappear It spread like wildfire and soon your music was no more Soon we lived in desolate silence You and I Spoon feeding the masses our hollow heap of endless lies “Hush my people, everything will calm once more if you only do as we say.” That night we all passed bitterly away The cold overtook our shaking bodies And curdled our blood like sour milk My last sight was you A sinister smile spreading across your chapped lips “The end” you whispered, as you grabbed my hand “Is here.”
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May 31, 2013
May 31, 2013 at 9:12 PM UTC
The End is Near
You muttered lies and empty threats With the intention to collapse all that we’d built together. Our empire was structurally sound And flawless to the last detail But you've crumpled it With your angry footprints And your inexplicable ability To reek havoc upon the unsuspecting citizens You created dysphoria in city streets The muffled screams of children pressed into the breast of their mothers Clinging to their shirts For all the life that their tiny bodies had experienced Appeared to be crashing down. In a nanosecond everything changed Our quiet halcyon would erupt into a volcano of misery You played your violin on the rooftops Listening to everything you had ever known and come to love, disappear It spread like wildfire and soon your music was no more Soon we lived in desolate silence You and I Spoon feeding the masses our hollow heap of endless lies “Hush my people, everything will calm once more if you only do as we say.” That night we all passed bitterly away The cold overtook our shaking bodies And curdled our blood like sour milk My last sight was you A sinister smile spreading across your chapped lips “The end” you whispered, as you grabbed my hand “Is here.”
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May 31, 2013
May 31, 2013 at 9:12 PM UTC
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