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Tag: The repeating cycle of good and evil in the Star Wars saga. If you have watched the movies and read the ever-expanding Expanded Universe (esp. New Jedi Order and Legacy of the Force), you'll understand the futility of the battle. - One shot. Reviews appreciated.
"Lamentation"
A Star Wars Fanfiction Poetry
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The burden of memory is too great.
Those sad actions taken: justified
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I loved them.
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I loved their children;
Their sons and daughters.
I loved their children's children;
I loved their brothers, sisters.
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I loved their uncles and their aunts;
Their nephews, nieces and cousins.
Their mentors.
Their friends.
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I still love them.
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I cannot save them.
They are lost to me;
Tied to destiny;
Hurried by the Fates.
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And yet I still love them.
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That great mystery: love
It has many forms;
And many powers.
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It's said that love is the most powerful emotion.
I am inclined to agree; with some reservation.
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Love, not tempered, devastates;
As much, or more, than creates.
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Our memory is replete with such example.
Glorious names; loved and reviled. Remembered.
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Paris and Helen
Anthony and Cleopatra
Tristan and Isolde
Anakin and Padmé
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Their love brought down the greatest societies man has known.
Their tragedies are imprinted in the memory of man.
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For their actions, the Fates lament:
"All we have known is different now…"
"All is altered…"
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The brilliant noon dies;
The Sun sinks downward;
Twilight covers all.
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Eternal night reigns.
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Again, the Fates sing…
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"The days of glory are over…"
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Note: The site does not do poetry well. The lamentations are quotations from a London newspaper shortly after the passing of Queen Victoria of Britain in 1897.