Shedding Skin

Shedding Skin                      3/1/2016                  

The coils have tightened

And the sinews tensed

Boiling in our blood

Faster and faster.  

There is no way out

Except through

As the worst of men

Attack at will. 

None of it random

And none of it a mistake

Just another murder

Hidden and ignored. 

The truth endures

Acknowledged or not

Buried shallow

Or dumped in the trash.

Crawling in

And spreading out

Clawing. groping

Killing and multiplying.  

Even the most gentle of men

Must eventually awaken

Even if it is too late

And we are done.  

Stirring in our cave

We rub the sand from our eyes

Focusing on the light

Stark in the sun. 

Winter has passed

Like so many others

But now it is all around us

And our backs to the wall. 

The streets abandoned

And gone to the beasts

Roaming in herds

Right outside the door.   

Exposed at last

The good and the evil

Lied to and betrayed

By those we loved

And trusted. 

So now we see

The twilight of the gods

Spiraling ever downward

Desperately to kill

All they can.

For them

Nothing works like war

A great way to distract

And kill two sides.  

Stirring up the same old wounds

To pit brother against brother

Mortally wounding both

For someone else to win. 

The cult loves chaos

Because it works every time

Ushering in a new order

To exterminate the old. 

But woe to him

That dares stand in the way

Of the man behind the curtain

Pushing and pulling

Every switch and lever.  

The more they lie

The more you should know 

Because the truth is hate 

If you hate the truth.

Flinch not

When the snake shall bite

Because he can never win

But three days more.