Why Care for the Unseen?

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Chasing the setting sun

Eyes straight ahead

How many were left dead

Man's lust for knowledge

Boundless, unquenchable

What is the cost?

It matters not, not at all

The unseen, the forgotten

Cursed to a horrid fate

A fate of horror

Unspoken horrors

Hidden beneath society

A society built atop lies

Built atop blood and bodies

But it matters not men

We have progressed again

Thank you for your deeds

Now you must die, hidden

Hidden from the world

For what horrors we committed

To make a "better future"

A future that the children

And their children

Will endure the sacrifice

Of the forefathers

Lands left perverted

Barren and scorched

Cities built on the dead

And men scarred

Discarded like old parts

Bits of machinery, marching on

Progress comes at a cost

A cost never seen

A debt incurred to the wronged

A debt of blood paid to society

Never once to be rewarded

So we shall die today

But fear not, for society

It marches on

But we,

We march no more.

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