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The death throes of daylight set the sky ablaze* |
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Silent pyres are heaped with the bodies of the meek. |
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A twilight inferno: prelude to utter blackness, the Erlking's only boon. |
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In the shadow which offers no relief we explore the caverns of thought and pluck stars from the sky, striving. |
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But armour wrought from rhetoric and axes blunt by willful ignorance offer no protection--only shackles and an early demise. |
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Excise guilt. Abolish doubt. Is there no escape from Ahimsa's snare? |
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Natures face be stained red by claw and tooth. |
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But even rusty tools--misshapen and vile--have their uses. |
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There can be no life for the weak* |