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by wavebreak

The world falls apart when we all stay still When we pretend nothing is our problem But we are capable of taking everything The world falls apart as we hide in the shadows When we make the monsters our own and leave them under our children’s beds It is our doing as we ignore As we pretend That nothing truly ends Maybe it does not have to end But we will still suffer As the sky grows black And the ground is filled with cracks Brittles bones of tree trunks Elephants without tusks Nothing but ashes fill the sky And a little child asks why Why does everything die ? Why don’t the clouds cry ? Where did the bears go ? What happened to their home ? It is our own doing We are the monsters we make And we have set them all free And there is no time left To mute the screams No arc to preserve the flesh we have left Only time to watch and eyes to dull Because we chose money and greed Things that don’t matter to you or me I’m sorry my child There will be no more blue skies Or clouds that cry Only darkness And death The world has suffered too much debt
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Apr 6, 2021
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