February 5th, 2017
Outside the earth
A vacuum chokes
No air to laugh
No tears to cry
Inside the earth
Boils a fire
That lives to burn
Both you and I
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Atop a copper tower
On a iron-spiked wall
We built a pyramid
Of broken ivory
And our failure to care
Did doom the construction
To crumble to pebbles
Of forgotten finery