Hiero-Eremite

Twisted branches like ridged thorns
wrap around black lungs
over which lovers mourn
Disturbing smiles grin at priests
Bearing no evident scorn
Words bleed through ink,
burned into parchment memories
Born and raised in hatred
In a world of reveries

Praise the makers and the takers
Scrutinize the scum
Identify the real from the fakers
Not knowing where they're from
Throw the pennies in the wishing well
Redeemed back to life in Hell
Drown all the dimes that choose to tell
For we all have a soul to sell
Devour the knowing fruit
Spitting out the seeds
Planting another tree
It only hurts if it bleeds
Fools reap what we sow
Minds formed from clay and dough
Intellectuals breath in ignorance
For we're all a part of this dance

It's just ring around the rosie
Pockets without posies
Ashes...ashes...
We're all shot down

Yellowed with age are the lives we took
Hollowed corpses, knives through The Book
Ripping out our eyes,
in exchange for dollar bills
Tearing out our hearts,
we all know love kills
Pidgeon's just a gray dove
Diamond's just a shiny coal
Optimistic pessimists wonder why
While pessimistic optimists always die
Earthworm hermits bury underground
You can run, you can hide
You'll always be found
Corvine wings take the angel aflight
No longer a wrong from right
Coroneted sympathies fall behind
Heretic beliefs infused with hemlock
Political dictators cursed with mind block
Behold the wedding ring of misogamy
Female supporters of misogyny
Arrogance begets ignorance
Look how stupid we've become

It's just ring around the rosie
Pockets without posies
Ashes...ashes...
We're all shot down