Human Nationalists

 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 yet allowed

Will you follow where we are led?
A trek to kneel and recall at a sea of red
See here they whom reaper Time left unhallowed
Hailing heroes of the dead.
Though you would have fallen back and fled
I walk a path my dreams have followed

Will you follow where we are led?
As we kneel, raise your breathing head
Our greetings go out to the sorrowed
Hailing heroes of the dead
As they call to us from the books left unread
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 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 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 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.

Part III
We carry their banners in this place
Their unsung songs sally forth from our lips
Echoing through this hallowed space
As a Crimson reminder from my finger drips

Hailing heroes of the dead
They who died before their dreams were free.

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