Those Now Sleep Forever

So still I remain beneath the stars
 Their transient majesty blankets the sullen
 The sound of the complacent tranquility
 Whispers into my deafened ears
 How fragile and taciturn, the breath of the night
 A disturbance amongst us in the wake of my stir
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 My rest will in frustration wait
 As I have promised to shepherd my brothers
 Beneath obsidian skies
 I am compelled only through stubborn nature
 I think only to harbor this adulation
 That in flames of passion or war will never burn
 The discordant winds of war
 Its acrid scent stinging my eyes
 Can never blind the love I possess
 And in silence have I sworn
 To remain ardent and impassioned
 And may no enemy encircling
 Lay hands upon that which I so feverishly love
 I shall never abandon you
 So speak not a word, not another word
 I'll be right here by your side
 (Not another word, I'll be right here by your side)
 Though the burdened crown of weight
 Upon weakened column shall end
 I with dying breath have appeased
 This macerating creation by human hands
 Oh, how glorious the silence
 All iniquities bereaved
 As it descends to Earth
 On this most shameless of evenings
 I will never know another night to be the same
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 May the resonating word of this memory
 Burn brighter than the spirit of my youth
 That I perished the last of vitality
 So that others may persist
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 So that my brothers may live on