it
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the slumbering mass
shows no sign of life
and the people continue on
content in their ignorance

but this ageless demon
finds no rest in its sleep
and its name being invoked
it awakens with a rage

its appetite for destruction
seemingly insatiable
it tears down everything in its path
and tears down a part of himself

so full of hate is it
it eventually wears himself out
until it collapses once again
into the helpless mass it was before

and the people rebuild
and eventually they forget
and they continue on
content in their ignorance