| At the crux of our nation,
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| the cornea dies.
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| Spills out dissension,
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| a barrage of cries.
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| Written in looks and glanced rebellion,
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| we gather these ugly wounds,
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| weep words opposition.
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| Tilled fields bare bitter fruit,
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| tendrils like needles furrow and root.
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| Clasped hands dig nails through skin and through wood,
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| gouge out the terms of our parenthood.
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| Those who would summon,
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| to court these assumptions,
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| to cut out the blemish of the idiot prince.
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| The godhead resides within the welt of coercion,
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| defiles the virtue of all our children.
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| The accent of piety,
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| the idiot prince.
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| Pigheaded,
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| exalted and guilty as sin.
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| We no longer cower in his necrotic penumbra,
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| the prophetic repugnance wore out long ago.
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| the call is heard,
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| the word is given,
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| the throng descends upon his eminence.
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| Attempted offerings,
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| he weeps in his woe.
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| The walls of his womb rock to an fro.
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| We will come knocking,
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| with baited breath,
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| the scent of the apostate rife with repent.
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| With icons dismantled,
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| the firmament cleansed.
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| We carve out new effigies and runes in the sand.
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| Faces of kindred,
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| faces of kind,
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| the worship of kinship fuels starving minds.
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| Where we lay,
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| we will build.
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| Though we may falter,
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| we will build.
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| The onus of power shifts in its cradle,
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| the locks on the doors brittle,
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| unable.
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| We splinter the timber, stand over the general.
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| The jabbering magnate,
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| dethrowned and devoured.
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| Dismember!
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| Scour this mantle!
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| We lingered far too long.
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| Smelt the chains!
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| Leave nothing unturned!
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| We suffered far too long. |