Hemlock

Hemlock                     5/3/2016

The poison pill

Slides down easy

Melting away the pain

With a pleasing sense of euphoria.

A strange and alien comfort

In a world of heavy burdens

Pulling us downward

Towards an iron core. 

We who fool ourselves

Walk past the graveyard

Thinking that we are safe

And immune.

Trusting and foolish

We have only fooled ourselves

Sleeping naked

With our neck stretched out. 

Glowing white in the moonlight

Our blood can be smelled

As evil men grow ever bolder

And brazen. 

Even now they kill

Conditioned to obey

Children of the hive

Soulless and dead. 

I had to decide

What I wanted to be

And now you also must choose

To whom you will serve. 

Some wish to give

But many wish to take

Lusting after power

And swimming in blood.

Believing every lie

Until it becomes

Who they are

Slaves of Lucifer

Shinning in the night. 

Willing to murder

And willing to steal

Lying to your face

Until you hit the floor. 

I have seen them

And now I know

That all men are not the same

Good or evil

Truth, love,

Or lie.