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must a man lose everything
    to divine those truths inside -
       must he bare his marrow else
         deny what flesh should hide -
          and will he open up his veins
         thus through his blood, abide
       there is a thrumming stronger
    than what beats in his breast?

           must a kingdom wage a war
       to stand and prove its might -
   pave its streets in solid gold
 and show its doctrine’s right -
oh must it build its parapets
 in stone, to grandest heights 
   to know without one question
       there’s a paradise that waits?

must a god be sacrosanct
    through all that he applies
       faultless in his form or law
         while innocence thus cries
          must he let his redress act
         midst truth as passion dies
       or is that err of humankind
    how love so finds its breath?

           for love is yet the only force
       that triumphs over … death.

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