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May your thoughts float away As you gaze at passing worlds, While you embrace the moon bathed earth. May your heart be blessed With many years of happiness While all others must be forsaken. May your eyes see nothing but joy And lay witness to many miracles While all others bear witness to pain. May your body grow old with grace And your mind absorb all knowledge While all others perish and decay And float away into the wind like dead leaves Into a world for the less fortunate. A world where all is forsaken And nothing thrives but hate and anger. May the web of lies and deceit Never stray from your eyes. May you never have to see That your moon bathed earth Is nothing but a barren wasteland, With war on its doorsteps And the blood of our children Spilt into the sea like toxic waste. While soldiers scream And watch their friends die. May you never bear witness To this unnecessary bloodshed. May you go in your sleep Free from pain and anguish While our children die In horror and terror. Buried in the ditches Only worthy of the corpses of rats.