While You Stood There Did You See

Human Nationalists Part 1 Upon Departure 

 Will you follow where we are led? 
Can your heart not be swallowed 
Hailing heroes of the dead 
 With their lives they saw us fed 
Feasting in a world where life is allowed

 Will you follow where we are led? 
 A trek to kneel, to bow, at a sea of red 
Bubbling up, here reaper 
Time left hallowed
 Hailing heroes of the dead. 
 Though you would have fell back and fled
 I know a path my dreams have followed 

Will you follow where we are led? 
 As we kneel, raise your breathing head 
Our greetings unheard by the sorrowed 
Hailing heroes of the dead 
 In the dreams I kneel alone, yet abed 
Yet doused in yearning. 
 Cowed, 

Will you follow where we are led? 
Hailing heroes of the dead? 

 Part II Upon Return 

 While you stood there what did you see? 
Humans steeped in beliefs so dear 
They died before their dreams were free. 
 Far flung defenders, never allowed to be 
In a land with home and loved ones near 

While you stood there what did you see? 
 How against the blackness of feigned memory 
They won, but who remembers enough to cheer? 
They died before their dreams were free 
 Countless bodies tumbled down like scree 
Fate and Cause so incredibly clear 

While you stood there what did you see? 
 Heroic payers of the blood drenched fee 
Succumbing not to heartless fear 

They died before their dreams were free. 
 People once filled with mirth and glee 
Shattered to silence, ignorant of history’s peer 

While you stood there what did you see? 
They died before their dreams were free.

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