June Fourth 1989 From The Shattered Pieces Of A Stone It Begins

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This place begins to cave. These are a madman’s days.
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A trembling land must play a murderer’s game.
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The blind man’s flickering eyes. A flame as black as night.
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The unborn children die before me now.
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But from the soldier’s broken bones, from a mothers’ silent songs,
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from the pieces of a shattered stone it starts.

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We learn and then forget the screams and silhouettes.
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In time you’ll find we’ll make the same mistakes.
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So ruins are reborn, an ever blood-red dawn.
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The palm-lines turn to cracks beneath our feet.

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But from the silence of the tombs, from the broken, barren wombs,
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from the pieces of a shattered stone it starts.
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From the parted lovers’ lips, from the nailless fingertips,
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from the whispers of a silenced voice it starts.