Violence, Lust and Power

What gospel remains when power rewrites the scripture?

Leaders flooded nations with corruption;
religion flaunted faithless purity.
Mass media fed us on deception;
our feet dragged through fetid apathy.

Gentleness and humility thought bad;
violence, lust and power the true path.
Trash talk, sleazy behaviour admired;
mental illness that must be rewired.

Minds strained by the weight of being holy;
spineless sheeple felt forever lonely.
Tortured souls struggled to fight the mighty;
individuals their own Almighty.

Stampeded to their gain without a thought;
everyone an enemy to be taught.
Dishonesty poisoned every race;
human gods were determined to erase.

—H, still screaming beneath the altar