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Serpent of Eden…writhing with pestilent persistence

Lies that insist on remaining Holy

Now these scriptures wiped off the face of life

Perpetuate final existence

Nothing is equal, all pale in unison to demonic wrath

Self-flagellation, our earnest attempts

To free our spirits from an eternity of flesh

Unclean, evil, judged in delight

Mortality lured by the deception of hope

To join the horde, the flesh of shades

Rotten, ulcerous strips

Free to gorge on the sheep of God

Lying in wait, our darkness

Becoming nostalgia as we count

In descending order, our order of descent

To writhe in pits covered by centuries of lies

Now dust and mites preying on the swollen lips

of Holy matrimony