Turul

Turul, image by stunket. Palacio Real, Budapest.

225 as stiff as toys / and tall as men / and swaying like the wind torn trees / she talked about the empty world / with eyes like poisoned birds / she talked about the armies / that marched inside her head / and how they made her dreams go bad / but oh! / how happy she was! / how proud she was! / to be fighting in the war / in the empty world!

The Cure, The Empty World (The Top, 1984)