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My spirit roils and seethes in endless contempt

Trespasser, perpetrator, transgressor

A beguiling artifice encrusted in Epicurean desire

Detractor, villifier, disparager

Surrounded by serpents (I Am!)

Surrounded by serpents

Rising! Rising!

In your condemnation, my spirit hath arose

Preaching! Preaching!

In evangelical pride, the fabrication you spoke

Beseeching! Beseeching!

My conviction, a burning effigy in your name

(I Am!) Aristarch! I have become what you were to me

(I Am!) Chastised! Castigated for a sacrifice I did not repent

(I Am!) A truth! Collapsed into a clenched fist

(I Am!) Venom! I shall become thy holy serpents’ poison

(Which resides within your heart)

A zealot’s wreckage conspicuously swathed as virtue signalling

Perjurer, equivocator, pretender

Surrounded by serpents (I Am!)

Surrounded by serpents

Hatred! Hatred!

Through your revulsion, I have overcome

Sacred! Sacred!

Flagellated upon thine self-serving cross

Fated! Fated!

For a justified proclamation, I am damned

Drowning in your serpents’ grasp I may be

Wrongfully punished for I would not prostrate

Would not yield or submit at your temple of conceit

Now taste the vengeful steel of my conviction

Send thy holy serpents’, for I am their venom

Which shall reside within your heart for all time

Slowly corroding your insides, as your vicious lies

Collapse around you as a clenched fist prevails

I Am!

The hypoxia as your brain’s starved of air

I Am!

The poison which constricts your heart

I Am!

The necrosis that eats at your flesh

I Am!

The festering tumour in your bones

I Am!

The darkness that extinguishes the light in your eyes

I Am!

The oblivion that awaits

I Am!