Death drips from the serpent's lips
Swarms of foul carrion
dress these streets

Innocence, surrounded by
famished teeth


Vile creatures propagate
regurgitate raw flesh
With each perishing sun,

we're left to simmer on the carcass
gravel as they inch their way
towards us


The persecuted and the penurious
We are distressed and inimical


These are a few of my
favorite things

Please make way for the
cardinal sins


Indolence
Esurience
Avarice

Lascivious
Malevolence
Conceit

Carnage

We will consume

Feeding the famine
Drinking from the drought
Like scavangers, the vultures

begin to circle above me

Yes, I will fill this glass

& scorn at this sickness
Yes, I will lift this chalice
& toast to disgust


It's my only weakness


The persecuted and the penurious
We are distressed and inimical
$#&@ all the promises

you never kept
Don't fret we'll make a martyr
out of you yet


We are but stowaways lost deep in
these treacherous trenches

Victims of snide whispers and the
mutiny brewing amongst us


Fallen angels Forked tongues
Forged halos & False revelations


Scythe, O harrower
Absolute devastation
Garner the cadavers

I am ruination