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Thursday 27 November 2025

The Devil's Wind

When it began
We can't remember
Maybe as a wind
A wind that carried the news
The talks, the gossips, the radio waves
We payed it no attention
Or maybe we did
Maybe the worth of what we paid
Was not the worth of what it deserved
It grew
In the silence, and in the noise
We turned
Maybe we tried our best to fight
Maybe our best was too mediocre
We had been outnumbered
Our actions were slow
Our reactions too sloppy
What was once news
A tragic story in a different region
Though the same land
We offered sympathy
We wept
But never enough action
The ones who guide and guard us
Did too little to be considered help
They bargained
And danced with the devil
Invited him into our tents
Now, we shiver
Unable to move freely
Unable to think freely
Unsafe, Unguarded
Shackled by the thoughts that the lion roams
Nay, the lions
With guns for teeth
Ammunition for heart
And a chest plated in stone, in and out
Help us!



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