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Awakened - slowly rousing from transcendental bliss

Cognizant - a bitter stench fills the air

Redolent - the acrid taste of blood and rust

Vivified - privy to a landscape of humanoid wreckage

Espying - an epic display of utmost vanity

Descrying - generations bred in rancor and hate

Empire - man and machine lying in dust

Awakened - slowly rousing from transcendental bliss

Cognizant - a bitter stench fills the air

Redolent - the acrid taste of blood and rust

Rising to my feet I beheld

A world torn asunder

Opening my eyes I saw clearly

A land which had paid dearly

Bodies strewn across the landscape

Torturous visage tormenting the senses

Clutching in my hands, the remains of a man

A cranium in disuse

Decorates the sand, an age long since passed

Forged empires which could not last

On my knees at the shoreline

Fumbling to cleanse bloodstained hands

A futile act in the crimson surf

I gazed at the tide and saw what it had imbibed

Awakened - slowly rousing from transcendental bliss

Cognizant - a bitter stench fills the air

Redolent - the acrid taste of blood and rust