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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MerakSpielman" data-source="post: 500796" data-attributes="member: 7464"><p>You want dark? I got dark.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: silver"><strong>A Shattered Earth</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: silver"><span style="font-size: 9px">By Merak Spielman</span></span></p><p><span style="color: silver"></span></p><p><span style="color: silver">Darkness engulfs the rising Sun-</span></p><p><span style="color: silver">The light is dimmed, the hope is lost.</span></p><p><span style="color: silver">Battles were joined, the war was won:</span></p><p><span style="color: silver">Victory achieved at a terrible cost.</span></p><p><span style="color: silver"></span></p><p><span style="color: silver">The darkened Sun looks down upon</span></p><p><span style="color: silver">Mangled bodies and blighted fields.</span></p><p><span style="color: silver">No light streams from the new day's dawn:</span></p><p><span style="color: silver">Warriors come home upon their shields.</span></p><p><span style="color: silver"></span></p><p><span style="color: silver">Smoke boils up from a town ablaze.</span></p><p><span style="color: silver">It's the end of an era, a fall from grace,</span></p><p><span style="color: silver">A tarnished end to silver days.</span></p><p><span style="color: silver">The Sun looks down and turns his face.</span></p><p><span style="color: silver"></span></p><p><span style="color: silver">Mountains crumbled down to sand,</span></p><p><span style="color: silver">Mighty forests burned to the ground,</span></p><p><span style="color: silver">The seas rushed in to drown the land:</span></p><p><span style="color: silver">Upon our Earth was darkness crowned.</span></p><p><span style="color: silver"></span></p><p><span style="color: silver">The Earth itself, indeed, may die</span></p><p><span style="color: silver">Before the shroud of darkness lifts.</span></p><p><span style="color: silver">The darkened Sun itself may cry:</span></p><p><span style="color: silver">Man lives in the ashes of his gifts.</span></p></blockquote><p></p>

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