Destruction

dəˈstrəkSH(ə)n

noun – the action or process of causing so much damage to something that it no longer exists or cannot be repaired.

we stretched out our hands

we stretched out our hands 
and in our eyes were all the 
words we could not speak

what shattered belfry 
tolls the awful gallantry 
of chocolate soldiers

my beloved is 
not the only reaper who 
stalks this battlefield

if i want to raise 
a new life from old ashes 
i must burn this one

the glory of war 
drowns the shrieks of the wounded 
in lethal moonshine

this matchless valor 
in bloody consecration  
of my shattered land

i am powerless 
before machine gun bullets 
and beautiful girls

life and death conjoin
amid the clatter of the 
iron dice of war

fight monsters with care 
lest you become the object 
you seek to destroy

the power to build
is as nothing compared with
the power to break