because we are scattered poor tribes of our limited affiliations
because we are see again and again evil win out on this plane
because we never will understand our complicity
because we reach for absolution from holy men as tainted as we
because there is no group way to a guaranteed salvation
because we turn from realities we cannot comprehend
because we celebrate our mendacity in the name of every name of God
because we wrestle with angels as weak as we are
because we dance before the wrong golden calf
because we tear meat from a pig roasting under nuclear irradiation
because we deny ourselves in the name of some imaginary deity
because the kings of the world will gladly assume the role
because we've sold our birthright for slave wages and hateful domesticity
because we've abjured our responsibility for a night on the town
while the Apocalypse rages in every club and in every dish of food in every
drink in every gratuity
because we eat our own shit and praise the Lord for the bounty
because we seek escape from our skins every moment of every day
because nothing is safe on roads of murderous gangs of cretins
because all passages on the last rocket leaving the doomed planet
are booked by rich scumbags who think they'll buy their way into Heaven
because nothing is flying in storms and solar flares
because earthquakes disrupt the mechanizations of man that chimp
with a gift for speech
because the reckoning has finally come and we're all broke
because all hopes of Heaven Nirvana the Unconditioned are wiped
clean in the cleansing of our imagined paradises
because we still believe we are worthy of forgiveness after abusing the gift
because our pride has convinced us we are God
because every truth relative and ultimately useless to our capacities
is the very instrument of our destruction
because we had no idea any of the Universal Laws applied to us
because pride continues to ill-use us
because we do not believe our fallen state to be fallen
because we take no one's word for anything and we know absolutely nothing
because we are the last word in the folly of creation's accidents
because we love one another only when it's convenient to us
because we've run our thread out and think the supply is inexhaustible
because our bubbles have burst and all that remains is the air
that subsumed the glistening evanscence
because our time is up and we insist on staying
because there is no light in this world
because God weeps at the punishments His vengeance must mete out
because our fondest memories are a frayed flattened cushion
because we land hard on solid ground
because God has had enough and we have had enough
because the end is near and we cannot see passed that apotheosis
because we do not believe in new life after this
because we cling to our dying skins
because this is fact because this is process because this is it
because we have finally reached the end of this road
because we fear the darkness as ever as ever
because this is what it is to dwell in the earth
because it will never be the ultimate comfort
because it is only and ever because it is
because it is
Content (c) 2008-2011 Philip Milito.
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