Ashes of Vengeance
April 1983, the sky burned red,
At the Embassy, the innocent lay dead.
Terror struck with brutal might,
136 souls erased in the night.
Yet in heaven, the scales are weighed,
For blood demanded the price be paid.
October came with a deadly toll,
Marine barracks fell, claiming each soul.
307 lives were lost to the fight,
Hezbollah murderers snuffed out the light.
Vengeance waited, cold as stone,
Justice accruing, interest on the loan
Forty years passed, and reckoning came,
A storm ignited in heaven’s name.
Hezbollah’s fortress, secure and tall,
Crumbled to dust in a violent fall.
The earth split open, flames poured down,
Turning triumphs to ash, burning them down
No plea, no mercy, their screams ignored,
As justice answered the blood once poured.
Their empire now burns, a crimson pyre,
Seared by judgment’s all-consuming fire.
In righteous flames, the debt is paid,
Their wicked legacy forever unmade.
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