Precipice

Precipice

Sacerdotal texts tell of a dark age Where despondent ancient peoples

Suffered dysgenic plague Truth which the elders could remember as lies had

become sacrosanct

Unspeakable acts and mundane desires left kin divided

Many who remained pure fled the madness while others chafed

The texts speak of one who possessed a pious vision

One of endogenous strength and wisdom

Strength to stand alone - to separate symptom from disease

To harness rage towards reprisal

Wisdom preserved in hushed recollections, recorded in outlawed tomes

Erudition came to he who would not slink before the false

Others who had scorned idolatry

Flocked to this messiah, though it was widely detracted

As his words came to be the debacle compounded

And lands won in the first New World War were abandoned

In isolation the conclave prepared while multitudes were pacified with bile

Egregious vestiges of civilization crumbled around the traitors

And the leeches to whom they had chosen to serve host

Pestilence of time immemorial

Few years passed before patrols began to appear in the Holy Lands

Transmutations of fallacious edicts

Before righteous predators the swine were as prey

And empty beliefs died with their bearers

As generations passed, so, too, did this messiah pass Yet seeds had been sown

And the "utopia" had indeed become as filth, as he had foreseen

Pilgrimage again came, though now under quaternary standards

Defenders bred invaders; multiplied tenfold

Prophecies begat destiny for the true chosen Parables instilled from infancy

Veterans of that final war still tell of a hideous enemy and their parasitic lords

Whose bodies were burned in great pyres Each one indistinguishable from the next

So it was done, so it is written and so shall it never be again