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Fragment 1

Then was reckoning,

In the still and hollow night
We saw stray cats and hooting owls,
And from the chords of your guitar
A seismic force shook the world.

Buildings burned; people screamed; regimes collapsed.
The smell of blood + fire took my nostrils.

I fell on my broken knees.
A brick split upon my head.
Ash clouded my eyes.

The unanimous groans of a condemned world
Could not drown your voice.

And all I could do was weep.