OF these, it will be written
“they played a game for fools and foolishness they won.
Nails for their own coffins
Fire for their own memorial pyre
These walk in darkness
Vampires for even children’s blood.
So who can resurrect these, the dead?
Only the poor brainless trained
To dance to their masters’ tunes
Unthinking, teaching violence
The scriptures of their demons reborn.
Human wrongs are now human rights
Conscience is dead
Men of pride once now debased
Clothed as clowns for the stage
Please do not extend your hands
Fighters of women and children
And unarmed men
Cowards in crowd.
I will not shake your hands,
And I will not forgive
For you, who seduce, to do evil
Must not be given the chance to justify