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Above a lake of salt

The sun is shining through

A thick cloud of sulphur

suffocating all that is alive

Monuments to centuries

of starvation and greed

Suffering in flesh and spirit

united in misery

The land won’t yield a crop here

Its people struck down by fear

Barely living, surely dying

throughout the centuries

A fear of death

and a yearning for life

never within reach

in this forsaken land

Monuments to centuries

of starvation and greed

Suffering in flesh and spirit

united in misery

The land won’t yield a crop here

Its people struck down by fear

Barely living, surely dying

throughout the centuries