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Trades were made, trades were paid
Lives were sold, souls enslaved
All for a purpose, all for a name
Yet now as you stare at your life’s bane
All you see is a child grieving, weeping
A life cut short by a hand not coral, coral
But flesh and bone and burning, yearning
For that denied by the world’s turning, turning
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust
As the heart’s mirror began to rust
You sold and bought, all for nought
In a net of heartstrings to be caught
Let hands tighten in a lover’s kiss
Let legs thrash in exulting bliss
A life for a life, now you see
And let your lyke go out to sea
In a ship of coral you came calling, calling
Snatching a star so it was falling, falling
But now at the path-ends a trade was made
And paid and paid, and paid and paid