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The AbsentThenand only then are we alive Lost but still there fueling our every step We wield a secret weapon powered by the missing by the lost, the absent but never truly gone When the time came they were torn from us taken forever leaving us behind By cheating death we cheated life Punished to carry Their missing weight Why are we still here? Just to suffer? Why do we still exist? Is it just to suffer? The pain, it burns bright white Phosphorus lungs breathe both deep and silent The ghosts of endless grief They haunt every moment The ghosts of endless grief The loss that shapes who we’ve become Memory within our dna cannot be undone It burns Residual impulses coagulate Like festering wounds Dormant, in absentia Never forgotten nor forgiven We hold our rifles in missing hands We stand tall on missing legs We stride forward on the bones of our fallen We cling to our dreams, to our phantoms |