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When Cultures Clash

by @SabreLi

It was the end of the world when Ares met Mars Supposed to be counterparts, brothers in arms But on opposing sides they stood Couldn’t see eye to eye And instead of stemming the blood Each took an eye for an eye Until in time the whole world went blind The sword attacked and the spear struck back But that’s what happens when cultures clash When cultures collide With anger and hatred it starts to divide But nobody wins, cos the dead look the same on both sides It was the mother of all storms when Jupiter met Zeus There could have been a deuce; could have called a truce But each wanted more and more The two as black as thunder And instead of stopping the war Each stole the other’s thunder Until in time the whole world went under The thunder attacked and the lightning struck back But that’s what happens when cultures clash When cultures collide With anger and hatred it starts to divide But nobody wins, cos the dead look the same on both sides The underworld shook when the earth caved in Pluto and Hades together couldn’t take us all in We didn’t see when being heartless In wanting the best of both worlds That the second of the two would be darkness And together the weight of the worlds Would send us crashing down to Tartarus The rivers overflowed and the fires turned to ash But that’s what happens when cultures clash
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Dec 16, 2016
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As the title says, when cultures clash.

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