Babylon Fallen

standing on the edge;

if you listen hard,

you can hear

the last dying gasps

of dreams gone bad,

betrayed by their lusts,

abandoned by their principles,

strangled by their self-righteousness,

drowning in their hypocrisy;

destroyed by their greed;

the children shake with fear,

burned out shells,

well-preserved corpses,

waiting to collapse

into the beckoning grave

of their man-made utopia,

trapped within the walls

of their self-made

wisdom;

Babylon fallen,

forever.

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