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After World War III

I feel

The rubble under my toes

The lost destiny

Beneath my feet

The past

Portrayed defeat

More work to be done

Than minutes

Left

In the clock's small hands

Then

I bent my knees

To to undue the destruction

Though

I won't finish

Before my seconds

Diminish

The second

Gener-

Ation

May make it

Just a little weight

From the bolders

Lifted off thier shoulders

The beginning

Has to start somewhere

Why not

Where the apparent

-

Ending is sitting

Right next to us

-

Let's use the strength

Of a billion men

To lift the curtains

As they fall

If "happily ever"

Ever wants to happen

We have to accept

It's probably

"After"

We're dead

Whose strong enough

To face this truth

This fear

And work through the tears

Of our demise

Which

Will be met

Before our son rises

Don't wipe your eyes!

Let our cries

Form the oceans

That were ****** dry

In our time

So our children

Will view earth

As it once was

Once "was"

Becomes us

We'll be proud of what we were

And maybe

For the first time

History wont repeat itself

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May 14, 2014
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