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I worked in my master's lands until he passed His family then sold their land and each slave My wife and child were bought and sold again My healthy looking body led me to new fields Chosen as a gladiator, they said I had promise All 20 years in fields had left my body muscled I had never been a warrior, but I could look it I've scars from work, muscles built from labor I've fought exhaustion, but…
Beautiful and gentle, slightly afraid of her own shadow Loving and so soft, well beloved, ready to wear her halo Uncomplicated, if confused, able to find her way home She's moved beyond the material realm, waits in heaven I miss her, forever, my life was made more by her being
I needed faith, needed a guarantee To design a living, organic being I can't even live the life I have Makes me wonder the point of it My brain tells stories every sleep I dream and reach for more within Watching my body fail, as I grieve In fathoms deep, lost in the dark I am bleeding, covered in scars I live my life silently screaming Hoping I disappear into nothing Oblivion, a punishment to…
In the thick grass, footsteps crash through the waves Where the wheat is golden in color and reflects the sun Looking on the land in astonishment and in reflection Searching the ground, I am seeking artifacts of battle It is here, at Canae, the greatest slaughter happened Hannibal cut through Romans, as a scythe through grain
In every day that breaks, we believe our destiny is now In this city, we plant the seeds of our legacies, the dream Ascendant lives we see families rise above sacred ground For every father and mother there's a child of knowledge And a world that will become fulfilled, stands on edge In time it is surely true, my dreams will never relent In ascension, I'll have reach passed the heights Revealing…
Humanity yet lives, still and forever more, in the shadows of war The death of innocents will never stop, violence will continue A bitter truth, humans will kill other humans, unto extinction Life's a miracle, death's a curse, but it seems, humans hate life We make up for the slaughter, with memorials and holidays Every weapon we build, is a tool or investment that we cannot make Every choice to…
Together into the nethers, then to the hereafter We'll hold hands, knowing even if life isn't fair Face in the same direction, we see things same Past is gone, the future is the next generation's If it is now that Heaven holds us, without pain We have only one moment, it will last forever We'll stand for the One whose called our name Freed from love's starvation, life's alienation
I heard a powerful, distinct voice, calling me from death A savior, covered in blood by my hand, the spotless lamb Calling my name, saying it was time to live, lit my flame An end would not be the end, I don't own my final breath
Floating above the surface of earth I looked upon the deep blue world Glorious, with green life abundant A planetary source of life, purpose I'd cried gently, the earth observed Dust turned living clay, triumphant Life giving new life, life giving birth
Light is our power, darkness is an emptiness Fire burns darkness, patience destroys hours While captured in a void, there's no way out? We wander so blind as do simple humanoids The world we wish to have is far from reach Should we create different worlds or change? The path unknowable, or one we cannot seek
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