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Burning fields up on the hillside

Devouring lives with no names

Hiding the young in the flames

They flicker gold like a low hanging star

At a distance entrancing me

To the promise it couldn't keep

Past the glow I refused to see

Closing in to its face...

To see the human frames

I cower and turn away

And hide behind your effigies

There is no passing by

Everything is now aligned

Standing on an axis

The lines rats crawl

There's nowhere to run

Shards of torment crushed by feet

On lands dulled by embers

Rushed blood streams through water

To push you down

Is to drown with you

To push you down

Is to drown with you

Could the innocent screams

Warmth of last exhalations

Thaw the glare of ice

Over whites of eyes?

Passivation

It's different now

Rendered inertial

To the heat of life so violent

Terrible singularity

So tangible seducing

Stepping forward

Into endless death

To push you down

Is to drown with you

To push you down

Is to drown with you

To push you down

Is to drown with you

To push you down

Is to drown with you