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Earthquake

There is no way to sugar coat this pill;

The empty arm which dangles from the bricks

Defies all thoughts and prayers and commentary.

The old man howling for his missing wife,

His private grief invaded by the hacks,

Speaks words of simple, bitter dignity,

For viewing on the global carousel.

As leaders bring their unkept promises,

The numbers climb, as on election night.

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EarthShake

Everything begins to shake… Earthquake! Earthquake!

All I hear is people screaming

All I see is people running, ducking, taking cover under

Falling ceilings in the building

Crushing women, men and children

 

And I’m stuck… standing stagnant in this chaos

Tryna move, tryna breathe

Poland spring machine spewing water

Feeling like the elevator, out of order

Fire burning,...

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Araboth

 

Araboth

One day there will be a city built from the ashes of a nuclear war that killed 6 billion people. A city built to hold a million but they’re all dead ’cause of the war.

So only twenty thousand live there, in defiance of what they have all done.

For Mother Nature will strike them down and take Her revenge against Man,

for what he has done to Her only pearl. Araboth w...

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'Devastation' (with recent events in Japan in mind).

'Devastation'

 

Devastation

Leads to candle light

Leads to despair

Leads to repair

Too... togetherness

 

Devastation

Leads to who you are

As a people

As a person

As one

 

Devastation

Leads to the sorrow

Leads to the loss

Leads to the humbling

That brings out,

the best of human kind

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