The Wandering Sickness

suffer for their comfort, feed the parasites
as your blood trickles down, you gasp for air

circling like vultures, eating the wounded alive
until there is nothing left but despair

I've peeled back every outer layer
dug all the way down to heart of death
here there is no safety, only mortal danger

their lifelines are ropes fitted for our necks

the whole world is sick with the infection

mammon, their hell has been unleashed

our eyes gone black from total lack of sun

finding no warmth in their frozen hell

we cower in fear and wear the blinders
seized with death shudders, barely aware


the system is collapsing under its own weight
we sworn an oath to its neon god

trapped in the wreckage, buried alive
bleeding out with no hope to survive
death from above, no shelter here below
their poison in our veins is all we've ever known

in time, those self-proclaimed angels
will make your noose out of their halos
and leave you there to twist in the wind