Arch and Omen

 Arch and Omen                    4/6/2016

Now you can see

The ugly truth  

Proudly in all its horror

Just as it always was

And is. 

Duped, used

Hoaxed and deceived

By our own good intentions

And venal men. 

The same in the end

As it was in the beginning

The murderer and usurper

Narcissistic and vain.

And now that the lie

Has grown

To where it cannot be sustained

The end game comes

Full of terror

And blood. 

It has all been a lie

And many who believed

Sacrificed themselves

Dead in trenches

Covered in mud. 

For someone else’s greed

And someone else’s power

They gave their all

And died for nothing.

Changing names and changing faces

People are placed

And then purged

Each for a reason

That we did not know. 

Our guts torn out

And our trust exploited

All by fake leaders

Bought and sold.

Pawns in a game

Upside down

And fake

Dupes to be used

For nothing at all. 

Betrayed at every turn

In smoke filled rooms

Everyone you ever knew

Or loved. 

Nothing but pets

Kept in the dark

Manipulated to act

On the same old cues.

The men behind the curtain

Never changed at all

Each pulling the same levers

Either to the left

Or the right. 

Used, betrayed

And sold out for nothing

Just because we woke up

And pulled back the veil.

God knows

And he saw it in a line

Knowing then

What we feel now

Hunted and persecuted.

The deluded will stay deluded

And evil will only grow bolder

Past the point of forgiveness

And lost in the black. 

Let them rage

And let them hate

Scrambling over each other

For a few scraps more. 

We shall do what we can

At each step faithful

And at each step strong

Standing straight

Until the very last moment

When almost every hope

Is gone.