Do I come back to you
with anger, or forgiveness?
Give you my body
and my soul?
Will you fight me for control
and end this life
as my enemy?
Consciousness decays
and in time we betray
everything and everyone.
Are we worthy of distain,
or the death of a deity?
Cover up our crimes,
they all come out in time,
and demons laugh
and angels cry.
We speak condemning words.
Draw blood to slake out thirst,
but we are never satisfied.
Forgive,
condemn.
Is it us,
or them?
Identify in those outside
who must be ostracized.
Hide our own sins inside
and think that we are canonized
when we die.
Saints and sinners,
we might be
worthy of
the death of a deity.
Returning to find you
crying in the ash.
Cities
and bloodlines
all come to pass.
Fire, flood and famine
come at last,
and all your pretty beaches
turned to glass.
What words would make
everything better, now?
What sounds might make
your loved ones rise
from the ground?
You made the choice
to bring the veil down.
Can you live
with the truth
that you have found?
It only costs you everything.
A small price to pay
to claim all of reality.
Are you worthy
of all of the world’s fealty?
Do you deserve
the death of a deity?
HG – 2022
