Dark+Side+of+the+Moon

A sestina by Jacob Tyles, Matthew Schueler, Atsi Shah, and Emily Howarth
 * __Dark Side of the Moon__**

I have witnessed the true essence of fear, The real catalyst of our anguish. Hidden have we been, among the unknown. We built their pyramids, we were their frontier. In tin cans and conical monsters, they came. Awaiting an alliance, shrouded in deceit.

Within the moonlight of deceit, They were weak and reeked of fear , Empires squabble with kings mad with power. Plotting a world filled with such anguish Only malice they brought, onto our frontier. The magnitude of their greed unknown.

And yet our vicissitude was too, unknown. We had underestimated their deceit, And paid for it we did, with our own frontier. We challenged them, bravely fighting without fear, Yet with our inexorable fate in anguish, Man seized our home world with sheer power.

Our kingdom come they call, their surge of power. They ruined our air, polluting the unknown. Forever shall we be slaves in anguish. They broke us, supplanting us with their deceit. Rebel we must, let us not live in fear, Said we, //Go back home to your own frontier//

The Praetorian land is now man’s frontier Fueled by those men who are in power They rule with tasteless desires and fear. Anyone who rebels dies a death unknown. Man makes it so they didn’t exist, true deceit We will make mankind understand our anguish

I live alone in unspoken anguish. Hoping to reclaim our lost frontier, I dare those subdued to overrule deceit, Overturn those who claim they have power Because they are weak in the eyes unknown We return, regroup, regain. Restore their fears.

I run into the unknown to end our fear Well prepared against man’s deceit and power They will know anguish... on the final frontier.

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