Herds trample themselves in pursuit of salvation Sheep ravenously gorging on each other's meat. Eyes wild with fear Clouds part revealing Vanished stars An Empty heaven staring down Sins writhing deep, festering The Bloodshed does not cleanse Just Reeks of ill intent My skin boils Fear should not inspire life Lies like ferrous venom Take shifting form Fitting any circumstance The abstract keys to salvation In the eyes of the doomed blind Instruments of horror Born for redemption Wielded gracelessly Bring their bearers Regardless Of chosen faith Nor victims Guilty of any sin Closer to a god they both abhor My skin blisters Open sore pus soaked finger painting Happiness drenched in sickening bile Madness is all that remains Flies infest Prostrated carcasses A rotting effigy reflects The departed souls beliefs Nothing is sacred They will rot above the ground A feast for the maggots Bones to be picked clean Names to be forgotten Add mine to the score This festering abstraction It is It was And will be Forevermore