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Us (Or, Broken Places)
Silence is shattered by a dozen
Tears that scream as artillery.
Broken glass and broken hearts
Dance among the wounded
and they sob with us;
We fight;
We Dance;
We laugh;
We do not give a s***
We are eachother
Tanks rumble with iron lungs
Catatonic silence within
The ensuing chaos;
Pow, ka-boom, dakka,
We sob
Rounds scream overhead,
All around
Wounded wail morbidly
And we shudder within
One another's arms
Inside the screaming
Shells and distant rattles
Of Death
We hold our Life
The haze clears in its
Embracing bubble that surrounds us
We hold onto our sanity
Look into our eyes
Our clarity.
A dance, Darling
A kiss,
Sweetheart.
We smile
Glass shatters around us
Like our Broken Places...
But we Fight
We dance
We laugh
We do not give a S***;
We are immortal
Within eachother:
We are Us