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Listen:the cacophonies of alarms:

The sickening symphony of becoming real,

Awaken the serpents from their dens

To adorn themselves in the scales of war.

Forked tongues turn the time, a slave to the sun's reign.

Distant drones distract from the centerfold

Smothered earth beaten brown by paths of decay-

The shades of life are silent witnesses to a world gone mad.

Show your sharp teeth:

A crooked smile glimmers in the hunt for prey

Jagged saws of a weapon for the conquering.

They are trophies of battle and age.

They are life takers and soul scorners.

Show your blood, wounds trapped in a mortal cage of flesh.

They are signals of a clock unwinding.

"Spare me my life" - they are words gone unheard by the fearless scales.

Fangs sink in the sea of cells, residue red coagulates.

Colors of me abstract and splattered on walls, I fade into the nameless ranks

As a thirst for blood grows inside. This venom takes hold.

All morality is devoured alive.

Poached and coursing through the puppet veins;

Bleeding wounds quench the thirst of the dirt.

You will fall alone, brackish to the cycles,

To feed, I must kill.

To survive someone must die.