By order of the mad prophet
Smash! Sledgehammer bashes stone
Soldiers advance on unmoving targets
Bravely facing carved stone in
heated battle
Cameras ready to bring news of dark
deeds
All contrary meanings and measures
Smashed! Burned, erased
Whether man or works of hands
To demonstrate resolve for war
Until only cycles of blood remain
The camera moves, the music swells
Smash! Another statue falls
Praise Allah! Hammers in the air
The world watches the destruction
of men long dead, now dying again
For the first time since it birth
Lamassu looks up
Sees itself, head lost to body
Forced to watch invaders
Destroy its home once more
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