Anyone can kill
No matter what religion
Injects the morphine
Of a lofty consciousness
Or a glowing hereafter

Clouded sorcery
Perverting (the nature of)
With clever magic
Stealing spirit from moments;
Another piper’s flute-song

Cowards behind masks
Fighting for all lesser gods
A scaled death-blade sweeps
Through an ancient hellish land
Abaddon brings blood and death

They never adapt
Brabbling about religion
How much is wasted
Barren days they’ve borne the grief
Of all that remains fruitless

Hoping to transcend
(No matter what false promise)
One satinpod seed
Sees Hesperus at nightfall
Dancing with boreal signs

Everyone will die
No matter what religion
Injects the morphine
Of a lofty consciousness
Or one radiant heaven
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“But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.” Joshua 25: 15 (NIV)
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