Deceit, sorrow, grief and pain;
Death, hate, with nothing to gain.
These are the friends (and many faces)
of Ruin; forever walking in its place.
When the blasts come and destruction falls
a fatal rain will follow.
For many will die; life fails
to continue on (like their fellows).
With bitter destruction
and unforgiving chaos
comes the people’s rebellion.
Their mindless thoughts
go to waste
on such bitter regret;
And with such haste
they wish to forget.
Such horrible misdeeds
should not go unpunished.
Yet they do.
No one won. Only the vanquished
live on.
When there is so much ruin
hope just flies away;
Never to return again.
To the wandering lost
and the hapless souls:
Happiness is a cost
to which we can never be whole.
Happiness is a lie;
to be consoled a disgrace.
With ruin we get by;
Leaving sorrow in its place.
For eternity it resides
and day by day we get by.
The flames quicken
(they rush to feast).
With this a forest
comes to its end (with death it meets).
An unforgiving ocean (with unbiased notion)
sweeps away all of those
who pray for forgiveness
(and receive none).
The waves clear all life
as the winds drown out all cries
(though no one was there anyway).
After the wind and rain
clear the mess
there is no one to witness
the ruin left in its wake.
More ruin: the earth crumbles
just as it might quake.
Tranquility shatters; the sky tumbles.
Hell (it seems) awakens
to call forth its work
(its ruin).
The deadly winds of deadly skies
churn and spin.
In hot and cold (cold and warm)
comes the devil’s grin.
The cries of most are heard nevermore
(never dying are their screams).
Always to be haunting (forevermore)
the innermost of our dreams.
The land is torn and the earth been ravaged;
the sacred thing is gone.
The wind had been so savage
as it carried ruin along.
The ruins of nature (an unjust cause)
are caused by nothing at all.
But the ruins of men are the ruins of all
and with this ruin the world shall fall.
~Sunshine Hauck
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