Words of distrust Falling off every tongue Tensions rising to a boil Hostile glances Cast over every shoulder In expectation of betrayal Knives are sharpened In every darkened corner Withering façades, shaken Rising tides Of madness overwhelm us Paranoia penetrates Long-suppressed savagery Intruding furtively Penetrating empty spaces Corridors of the human psyche Castes wrought in stone stifle their dreams, Carve out their tongues unworthy flock, ascension denied Crippled and mute, they stagger With knives drawn in search of a mark Obdurate boundaries of complacent servility Established from their birth Too late came the epiphany for The meek never to inherit the earth Destitute and mocked by platitudes Fear and frustration overtakes Grasping at straws in want of salvation Abject grief sublimated through rage Conflict spreads exponentially Long-dormant leviathans stir In every man, roused by the scent of this.. Crisis begets panic begets violence begets death begets Crisis begets panic begets violence begets death begets Crisis begets panic begets violence begets death begets Crisis begets panic begets violence begets death...