Forestless

Where are those that provided protection
 Where are these giants of old
 And where in the world did I stand
 When they need protection of their own
 It's true nothing in this life is granted
 Other than the reminders of decay
 For all who stood tall have dissolved
 Into the consciousness of our yesterday
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 Barren have become my lands
 Emptied through the avarice deed
 Lacerated by the wounds of hand
 Vanished keep of bark, root and seed
 Sapling ghosts I long for now
 Blackened by the touch of fire and smoke
 Lost in the questions of why and how
 I still the whisperings of pine and oak
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 Thy thickets urn, my heavens burn
 Where now will I search for serenity
 For leaf and fern, my heart shall yearn
 Within the embers of our own obscenity
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 Paradise now feign, nature in chains
 As is my soul internally
 For the cost of gain
 Blood stains these plains
 And we follow in the footsteps of eternity