The Hibernates

The war machine was waxed and cleaned
 But the wolves they trained were slow
 No matter the shine and no matter the gleam
 The wheels just spun in the snow
 The best marine had been blessed by the queen
 With a badge for the best in show
 But the bronze turned green as he lost his steam
 While the ebb trickled down to a flow
 The trees weren't green but the frost turned to stream
 As the carbon melts the snow
 The ash fell free as the blackbird screams
 At the hibernates below
 You're breaking up, you're broken
 What's said remains unspoken
 To have a vice is always nice
 A parcel or a token
 The ice had thawed by the grace of god
 And we asked, please sir, for more
 No, he said, see I'm better off dead
 And we've been through this before
 So we took to land, did it all by hand
 As we carved through the melt of the snow
 The mold that grew knew what to do
 For the hibernates below
 You're breaking up, you're broken
 What's said remains unspoken
 To have a vice is always nice
 A parcel or a token
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