I must drink this poison
For my Father
In the garden
Where gnarled trees
Pierce a blood red sky
A taste like betrayal
That burns like fire
Its prey
Shedding fumes
Of odious gloom
Getting closer
shapes gather before my eyes
Adjusting to the night
Then vanish behind
The holiest veil
Torn away with nails
Empathy sewn
On apathetic face
Names are carved
Into empty space
With bloody knives
Carried tonight
On the road of dissonance
Entwined with a
Serpents vengence
Leading me
to the forbidden tree
From chaos to kingdom
From division to destruction
Good and evil expand
Collapse into the son of man
Alone in that dark hour
The Cosmos seethes
The Father sleeps
Casting us into the deep
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