Those Now Sleep Forever

So still I remain beneath the stars

Their transient majesty blankets the sullen

The sound of the complacent tranquility

Whispers into my deafened ears

How fragile and taciturn, the breath of the night

A disturbance amongst us in the wake of my stir

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My rest will in frustration wait

As I have promised to shepherd my brothers

Beneath obsidian skies

I am compelled only through stubborn nature

I think only to harbor this adulation

That in flames of passion or war will never burn

The discordant winds of war

Its acrid scent stinging my eyes

Can never blind the love I possess

And in silence have I sworn

To remain ardent and impassioned

And may no enemy encircling

Lay hands upon that which I so feverishly love

I shall never abandon you

So speak not a word, not another word

I'll be right here by your side

(Not another word, I'll be right here by your side)

Though the burdened crown of weight

Upon weakened column shall end

I with dying breath have appeased

This macerating creation by human hands

Oh, how glorious the silence

All iniquities bereaved

As it descends to Earth

On this most shameless of evenings

I will never know another night to be the same

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May the resonating word of this memory

Burn brighter than the spirit of my youth

That I perished the last of vitality

So that others may persist

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So that my brothers may live on