Paradigm

Deceit, disease, decline, this virus contradicting reason and theology

Contrasting ideologies fuel the vehemence through the imaginations of humankind

They are a part of the same feral beast, whose venom drips from ivory fangs

Waiting to rend the vacillating mind, her feast is our collapse incarnate

This succubus sits perched on a throne of misconceptions

She lies in a stagnant pool of spiritual afterbirth

Pregnant with deception she spreads her wings

As we receive her miscarriages willingly

The abscesses of human thought grow as she rapes her mind of its reason

Hope, faith, hypocrisy, rebellion, contorted into lifestyle distortions

Are the spawn that become her paradigm abortions

She feeds her dead offspring to the masses, holy men and counter culture

Both convulse in hunger, reduced to pains of famine

They will tell you who to worship, and advise you who to hate

You have become the canvas upon which they scrape their paint

All paths of logic lead to some form of light

Needle feast hemorrhages try to rip reason from insight

Clots from the womb pour forth with tides of delusion

We have become lost in a sea of illusion

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There is a path of light for those who aren't blinded by the lies that their fed

There are still minds in which logic and the divine have not departed

From malignant tongues forked in abhorrence

Their odium seeps piercingly into the common rationality

Kneel to the snake, kneel to the stake, either side breeds filth

Seek the knowledge you wish to gain and think for your fucking self

The wonder in the unknown, the infinite Scraped away by clawed hands in jagged grip

Perceive the sacrifice of common sense staked

Ways of thought that disguise true meaning

Deceiving distractions seizing our eyes and our minds

Leaving shrouds of divinity

Bleeding us of our foresight, leaving origins cauterized, these inconsistencies of thought

Shall reap their stench and tear us under

As we rot in withered tatters, decayed within mounds of ruin

We must ascend beyond these paradigms of hypocrisy

For reason and insight are locked away in the enveloping patterns of destiny

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