Lamentations
Sackcloth and ashes
blood and steel clashes
carbon dust burnt at last
digging the umber crust
sackcloth and ashes lie
as time passes into the future
it is written on the walls,
something cracks n crawls
the morality of passing
they have girded themselves
in sackcloth n ashes, secondhand lashes
blood of fear in emerald eyes tear
the aetherium is burning
they have bowed their heads to the ground
As lives are lost to the reapers machine, turning
deaths rattling sound, quite n opaque
the shadow finality looms into the doom light
sackcloth and ashes, steel crashes
dust of ages drift down deep, losing sight
Ashes twirl in dark halls
something calls:
“I clothe the heavens with blackness
And make sackcloth their covering with ashes…”
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