The Fire Chant

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Burning Burning Burning Pain

Blisters in my flesh

As smoke fills my chest

They are burning the weeds again.


Many, many errors

Not enough rightness

Who are the winners

Of this madness


I hear a baby's cry from under the rubble.

Then

it stops,

And I don't know which is worse,

If the wails of the children

Or the silence of the noble.


The children are crying,

the children are dead.

And everyone's fighting

Each other instead.

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