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0 posted 2007-08-16 07:12 AM



'Fore length'ning shadows' martial march,
as though there tolled a silent bell,
too swift 'hind bolt lade, chain clasped doors,
does dusk the twilight folk compel;
as frail legged sheep in fearful flocks,
they hasten tend their prisons' locks.

Tho' none has single crime commit,
to warrant curfew thus endured,
no trial stood nor jury found,
such penury to 'come inured;
no sentence passed, nor penance posed,
defend good lives be thus enclosed.

Yet when the shades made velvet black,
by daylight's wretched evening flight,
wrap tight within their living cloak,
such craven hordes as shun its light;
a creeping, crawling, darklit scum,
do self appointed warders 'come.

Hacked deep from Hades sulph'rous throat,
and spat upon the city's face,
a blackly spattered human phlegm,
thick oozes 'mongst those shadows' base;
as hell released its seething deeps,
with evening each the surface creeps.

Where freed day's fiery crushing yoke,
as Satan's blood it leaching spreads,
to claim the murk with mass consent,
it slides from foul infernal beds;
there seething in the murk it writhes,
to seize dominion o'er our lives.

Who prised that first demonic crack,
in tol'rance name what gall first borne,
what foul endured, what slur forgave,
when bled us first that velvet thorn?
As inch, by inch, with best intent,
we knowing yet our freedom spent.

'Twas then, had we but wit to see,
upon the future written bold,
in bloodied script and sightless words,
this chide would wrathful hindsight scold;
"That tolerance impart too free,
of justice cruel assassin be.

Yet laid we all each brimstone slab,
each pricking, craven conscience saved,
when with such fine intentions we,
our way to hell so freely paved;
thus first surrendered we the right,
to bathe our souls in blessed night.

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