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Day 25

We are the unborn you had killed / We are the women you have raped We are the poor you didn’t feed / We are the slain dead at your feet. We are the bloodstains on your hands / We are the wounds time cannot mend We are the people you have enslaved / We are the ones you could have saved. We were the screams you heard that night / When all stood silent till first light We are your courage that…

Black is the blood that flows down from the mountains Poisoned are the veins that drench our once green pastures. We deserve our own suffering a ruined nation without a king Ashes fall like snow where once our forests stood. Whatever remains the salt will wither away. Asternas, once the glory of all the kingdoms, bright was our flame, great were the works we’ve made. Where foreign lords…

They stride forth slumbering, waiting for their deaths to come. What hope remained to them slowly faded away. I remember the splendour, the towering halls of those once my kin. I remember the maidens bright and fair. I admired their wisdom, the strength of their arms, the glory of their king. I admired the maidens bright and fair. Though I departed to a distant realm unknown to me, I felt…

I remember she smiled alot, but when I looked into the eyes she got I saw the pain she would not share, she believed that noone ever cared. I hoped she would open her heart to me, but through her tears she was too blind to see that I was always there for her even though she never cared I would have carried your burden, if you just had let me in. She laughed out loud when they threw her…

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