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Sheet metal city

Ruin, destruction, fire and fear

Now I know why they ran from here

The wounded and the dying lay under ground

Undergrowth in abundance spreading all around

 

Fizzing and whirring through the air, it gets closer and closer to end your fear

 

Mounds that were cities, ash that were people melt into snow

The seasons are two, left tattered and strewn

In this apocolyptic sight...

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Christpocolypse

Christpocolypse

 

20th December and the lights are down

Expectance in abundance

As we look around

 

No tinsel or snow

No time to let go

Too tired and small

No feeling at all

 

They say he’ll be here soon enough

Yet time will soon have had enough

But we must be ready and not wither

The time is now, we must deliver

 

Yet who will come I ask?

It isn’...

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