This should simply be obvious..
It's another storypoemthing.
...of Troy
The air is of a sweltering stink.
Everything you've done is for naught.
Heedless voices called to arms stubbornly
sullying something that was beautiful.
Will you beg for it to fade away?
The shouts of dying hearts echo through your ears,
uninhibited by your desperate pleas.
Worlds tear from their axes at the mention of you name,
and onlookers stare in contemptuous envy.
Rest your weary eyes in dreamless sleep,
and hope the sea will drown your tears in salt.
At evenfall, time sits still in memoriam.
Yours is the face that launched one million ships,
far off in the distance,
can you see their banners raised?
Or is the haze of obsession,
binding blinded eyes with impossible dreams of utopia?
Don't you see the faces of the dead?
Or are their screams muffled by the indulgences of fancy?
For years they could storm,
hoping to see your walls as ashes upon the ground,
can't you see they fight to take you?
Drunk on glamour,
would you believe even gifts can be dressed lies,
and sharpened by vengeance,
for the greatest of treacheries,
is the one gifted in the form of peace.
I like this. I can't entirely grasp it, for my vocabulary isn't that large. What I AM getting, though, is alot of imagery. This is good. I like imagery, it helps one understand things better. It really reminds me of that one historic battle I remember from history class, but I can't remember what it's called. It's where two greek countries were waging war over a princess or something? I know it's a really important and well known battle/war, but I can't rememebr the name. OVERALL, this is good. I like it alot.
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