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There‘s no soul deeper than that

Of the sapling you break

The wail of a single creature

Dying shatters the whole

A single broken link disrupts the machine

What you believe you understand is only…

A faint reflection of truth

The dying, the killing, unacknowledged for centuries

You struck down my children, poisoned the soil

When you struck for the branches, you damaged the roots

When you struck for the limbs, you pierced the heart

Now drown in the tears of the mother

Unlike the leaves my roots have no end

Unlike your beliefs I have no end

I‘m digging through earth, through graves, through dirt

I am digging through you

Should I shrink from your touch

The taint is poison, yet I drink

I am yours

For the taking, I will vanish as you will

I will vanish as will you