Good Rose then stirred and raised herself.
Upon her sword she leaned
And limped to face her enemy,
To face the diamond fiend.
Cruel Black, her gem with harsh a crack,
Could then not even speak.
Now whispered Rose, her fury strong,
"You used to call me weak
"Because I cared for people, things
For justice, beauty, truth,
But weakness that is not nor is
It foolishness of youth.
"Belief is that which gives me strength."
She raised her sword and thrust
It straight through Black's decaying gem
Straight down to Earth's cool crust.
She stood, great Rose, and roared her threat
To gems, both near and far,
"We will protect this world from they
Who'd all it beauty mar.
"The battle's over. Leave this world,
You enemies of mine,
We'll draft ourselves a treaty soon.
I know you'll beg to sign.
"And any that we catch we'll kill,
No mercy on this day.
You leave or you surrender, else
Your crystal hides we'll flay!"
The fleeing gems to warp pads raced
And vanished five by five.
Of warp pads few indeed were used
For few remained alive.
Amid the smoking, grisly plains
The victors, silent, stood.
They'd won but all, in sorrow now,
Felt hardly as they should.
No joy, no shouts for victory, parades,
Or happy laughs, none joyed
Were they, the Crystal Gems, too much'd
Been lost, destroyed.
So many thousands dead, and more
Had disappeared, and worse
They'd never Homeworld see again,
Their chosen bitter curse.
Great Rose she sheathed her sword and said
That all her friends might hear,
"Today we've gained a victory
But at a price most dear.
"This is a time to mourn, the time
To bitter sorrows face,
But also time to reminisce,
For we all love this place
"And they who died did love it, too.
For all the hardship braved,
Remember that through sacrifice
A luscious world was saved."
Another dawn on planet Earth,
Their lonely exile's first,
The grisly plains, the scorch-black fields
In bloody light immersed,
But they who watched now watched with hope
That many long years on
The sun on Earth they'd saved would rise
With such a striking dawn.