| There are places
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| Not to be found but to be recognized
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| They sheltered a fire
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| The fire wherein the acts of God
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| And the acts of men were to melt and merge
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| Making it a a senseless chore
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| To distinguish the human from the divine
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| God resides in such places
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| And it is where He conspires
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| At the devastation
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| Of what took him so long to accomplish
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| It is where the sentence matured and was declared
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| In joint responsibility
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| Yet, wasn’t this an act of compassion?
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| Like the shooting in the head
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| Of a horse with a broken leg
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| Your cry of revolt and disbelief —
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| A brief caesura in the slowing heartbeat of the world
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| As if a horrible new pain
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| Had been given birth in abomination —
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| Surges in vain to face the inexorable
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| Leaving behind but a meager comfort:
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| There is no exemption for the offspring
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| Of this withered womb
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| Not even for Chaos itself
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| Who can reap the meaning
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| Of this unstinted negation of centuries and millions
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| Before it sinks within the infinite depths of that dun ocean? |