Deep Down

Deep Down                 6/20/2018

Gutshot and down

Dead beneath the grass

Feet in the water

And anchored to the past. 

Time can be neither

Right nor wrong

Because good and also evil

Are changeless points

We follow,

Or we ignore.

Blood and lots of it

Dripping from the mouth

And especially the hands

The fiendish few

Sucking off the many. 

Numberless are the victims

Either old and undefended

Or young and vulnerable

Trafficked in all directions

For every kind of horror. 

Eating and drinking

The vampire and the cannibal

Their feet dipped in blood

And feasting in hell. 

They scream in public

And they cry crocodile tears

Gnashing their teeth

And hissing with hatred.

They hate you

And they hate me

Willing to use anyone

Just to get

What they want. 

Louder and louder

And ever more violent

All of it over money

And absolute power. 

Long ago sold

And long ago lost

Dead in the heart

And a slave to Satan. 

They cry out about the children

But they have murdered many

Wishing worse for me

And also for you. 

Let it all come out

The truth

And the whole truth

All of it

All the way back.  

Brought out

Into the light

And exposed for all

Burning forever

And remembered

No more.