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The mask …which hides the pain…
Differs greatly …from the ones
Which conceal deceit …filled with self conceit
Follow …the trail… of ancient …tales…
Learn …from the ones who would be silent, if not…
Spiritual being… beat the drums, surreal…
Lest their silent screams …souls taken abruptly
By evil ones who would …if they could…
Take the spirits …from the defeated peoples
Stolen from the brutally murdered families…
Not by war …but, under the guise of peace…
Erase …if they are able… all signs
Of the greatness …they have achieved…
Diminish …and warp their visions
…extract their dreams
Looking, as if… a night train
Plummeting down through the tunnel
To disappear… from existence…
In a cloud of smoke …and dust…
And from the other side…
Nothingness
Arrives…
Still… the mask
…survives…
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