Swirling muck in the periphery The stench of wroth, wroth and malice Rotten words seep through rotting teeth This is the reign of the craven Among the plaguebringers, the ones who seep the fetid scorn Internalise the casting stones, scars that eclipse the brittle bones Indoctrinate, alpha domain, skewed paradigm, the victims blamed Fuck these iron fists Despotic psyche With bloodied throats and wrists Vapid hearts lie in our midst As we rot in the age of the narcissist The buried lightbringers, whose souls do weep from fearful eyes A cup of swill pressed to their lips from blighted dawn till putrid dusk The nausea, majority, they dominate, in misery Hollowed, lurking in plain sight Indoctrination to absurdity Reversal of roles, the truest of beasts The viral thieves of light and virtue Empathetic void ‘neath egos crown Shoulder to monstrous shoulder, looming So called humanity nowhere to be found So to the hollowest of skies, I’ll pray for your death I pray for your death