Dying as the morning Sun Bleeding on white hot floors Amid a stench of iron and burning flesh Evisceration of divinity When she was bursting with child! O high queen of rot and decay Unveil your ravaged sovereignty Shrouded in fumes and scalding vapour And frail of the whispered offering We take your body for our own To fill your wounds with curious tongues And your hollow womb with ash A womb from which all life dies But not without the pain of birth Praying for death before the end All but twisted wreckage, a husk! Weak of the whispered offering Bubbling skin and scalding ointment Anointing the feet of the dead A paltry hope of the dying To see the sons lie in state The cries of voices broken Heart of the malformed With woe you beat no more Truth is born in the last gasp