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Our home has been invadedOur lives destroyed, people massacred
 By fiends that only the devil could like
 Speaking in their low, guttural voices
 The voices of monsters, not men
 Their faces barbaric, unrefined,
 That split in half in pure evil and menace
 
 We fought back; trying our very best
 To send these demons back to their hellhole to last
 To forge a path of light in the brimming, overflowing darkness
 To vanquish the demons that spread death and disaster from this rich, thriving land
 And to cleanse this place of their filth and dirt
 To be able to continue with our lives again
at last
 
 But all our efforts were in vain
 As all we got in reward were casualties and pain
 Draining us of morale, dashing all hope
 Killing our spirit, sapping our strength
 Yet, loss after loss, we pressed on
 Forging our way forward with our own blood
 Striving to defend our homeland
 From the horrors of our dreams
 And to prevent its holy soil
 From falling under the demons' feet
 
 The war sieged on
 Yielding many dead, but never victorious
 Protocols were abandoned,
 Orders were disregarded
 People were ignored
 And the society sank into disarray
 We hung onto the last thread
 
 But even as we tried and tried, our planet slowly lost hold
 Slipping closer and closer to annihilation
 And further and further away from salvation
 It was then that our planet finally took its last breath
 With the covenant glassing its very surface
 Turning it into a molten, glassed slag of dirt
 Millions burnt, vaporized into nonexistence
 By the xenomorphic aliens that had started the war itself
 Reach fell,
 A symbol of success and glory for its attackers
 A memorial of misery and failure for its people
 A place to be remembered,
 No matter by  friend or foe
 Humans or Covenant
 Forevermore.
 
 
 
 
 
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