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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