The battle well fought,
Blood drips from the blade.
Clans kill each other,
A grave history made.
Women and children weep,
Men driven by fear.
Prejudice handed down,
Death year after year.
The torch forever blinds,
The flame of hatred burns.
A sad lesson taught,
But no one ever learns.
With malice in their hearts,
The war will never end.
The righteous always rise,
To do it once again.
When wisdom not often the same thing,
the first letter may not be capitalized.
Endless *****homini lupus,
more than human and dragon clash.
Smelling overlord blood feud,
taxation penalty redeployed.
Create more misery,
giant trading subjugating.
Free market eliminated,
minimal state dead.
An English man proved salvation's worth,
even in desert's unforgiving scald.
In life 'nothing is written' in the Earth,
Lawrence of Arabia he was called.
He rode alone to rescue a stranger,
from scorching devil's anvil sun-scoured sand.
Judged and shot the same man plucked from danger,
now killed to stave off tribal blood feud band.
Do not wish to walk in another's shoes,
for you never know just where they have been.
Content with what you have, yet still could lose,
and glad unwanted fates remain unseen.
An English man proved salvation's worth,
even in desert's unforgiving scald.
As day turns to night she's awaken
hunter, food provider for her brood,
Stretch, flap wings, feathers shaken,
pitch black, one thing on her mind
nocturnal rodents high protein food,
with stealth she flies, silent, streamlined,
eyes clear, professional killer, all fears
especially mice, vole, one way blood feud,
when our snowy owl silently appears.
Nocturna.
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