Hurt and Virtue

Distant vistas
 Swathed in the haze
 Of the reddening sunset
 Fell to whispers
 'Neath the stars that marred descending skies
 From the cusp of midnight mountains
 Wending as a mist
 Rebels truced with Feriluce
 (In truth, few could resist)
 Came praising this hellraising trough
 The sparse and marble clime
 Where Virtue bathed, their ravenings made
 Her fountains flood with vine
 Lifted with the gift
 Of their dark seductive songs
 She drifted from the path
 She was surely set upon
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 Courting chaos
 Prized in the sight of the covering angel
 Taught in ways of smothering another love
 Other than God
 Worshipped in each other's arms
 Like spider eidolons
 The moon conducted like a charm
 Those strange arrangements on
 And this is how they came to be
 Dragged before the throne
 Trough tongues that hung whilst theirs were run
 On soft white throats and punctured moans
 Though fated now than later
 By his tutor that had been
 He baited the Creator
 With the future he had seen
 Of Michael, psyched with jealousies
 A reich by His side
 And worming Man about to be
 The apple of His eye
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 His children lost to free will
 And the cost of beaten hearts
 Like the nigt 'twixt vice and Virtue
 When Her kiss became a scar
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 Seraph enemies
 Why has my lord forsaken my judgement
 Am I not free as He to indulge my darkest fantasies?
 From embittered lips
 These words were slavered
 Split on the whips
 Of their witch hunt gathered
 He sought Her gaze
 Midst drowning crowds that howled in rage...
 Blasphemer!
 Blasphemer!
 
 Though She was gone
 Not lyriced to the song of their spirited throng
 But ghosted back where She belonged...
 A grace embracing Michael
 In a lace of tears that bleared Her pride
 He swallowed
 Blood followed
 Through with spit for all things divine
 Through with spit for all things so fucking blind
 His seal He tore
 And to the floor
 He threw his tie to Heaven
 Signifying holy war
 And watchful of this sign
 A thousand flames, unauthorized
 Left celestial posts
 To coalesce and, unified
 Return their fallen leader
 As he turned one final time
 And threw a glance
 Like a downward lance
 That stung like guilt in every mind.