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see them all around you

take what your heart has learned

see them all about you

always there, forever with you

and it seems to me

that I was fevered for a time

we were left unseen

to mend the sails and face the tides

like vestigial wings that fold around you

gossamer and brittle in the cold

shadows come to haunt and hound you

you cast their presence everywhere you go

shadows come to us all

the man who's sons we buried

under piles of rubble

under towers of corpses

is a monument

for every dying ember

for every crumbled bridge

the cure we most desire

lies in a place besieged

boots split the ground

leave it soggy with rot

where few have witnessed

and none forgot

I wish you could be strong and free

I wish you never came to harm

outside the light falters

I'll fill the void between your arms

this suffering will break you

it will tear you apart

this sight will leave you breathless

it will break your heart