A Liar's Truth

Judgment Day A sinner's wage Working for the Lord's impatient saints A Job on the road to Perdition Driven mad Misfortune, bold Savors the taste The flavor and the bite Of raw blackbird, cold and bitter Served on a platter plated in glittering gold Repentance is a luxury Reserved for richer blood Redemption is a purse afforded few Sqave for the fattest coffers Lest vulgar hearts and tongues Dare to defy and deny a proven liar's truth Shadows Alone, bestow a flicker of wisdom A dim light, snuffed Shed like love Darkening the dusk with troubled visions Revoked Atonement in the throes of stoicism An image, unmade Faded and gray Like a face in disarray in a display of schisms Forgiveness, forbidden Deliverance, dismissed Remembrance, rescinded Confess and be condemned Witch trials, exiled Forthwith, forsake, forgo, forget A villain's journey, tragic, flawed A Pyrrhic history To endless repetition, doomed Sisyphus incarnate The Lord of Babalon Sodom-born, the heir abhorrent To Gomorrah, throned like a morning star Heroes Unknown, unsung, and utterly useless Idle warships Albatross-anchored Cannon fodder for the crude and mutinous Disowned Disavowed, disposed in a hazardous manner Abandoned by hope Twisted by fate Resented by those with delusions of slander Narcissus Invictus Unholier than thou The strangest of fictions The vermin on the mount A creature, beleaguered Forthwith, forget, forgo, and doubt Like Thomas, when haunted By thoughtless ghosts, discarded Unconscious responses Disheartened, disregarded Cathartic, departed Behold a prophet of the godless Behold, Summanus The prophet of the godless Behold, Summanus The prophet of the godless Behold, Summanus The prophet of the godless Behold, Summanus The prophet of the godless