captured this mere man of mercy and held fast him to an iron grip muscles tensed flexed humongous tearing dove like wings to shreds steel jawed set to devour last feeble prayers remain unsaid silenced by the machineries of war forsaken monuments of dead loyalties perished idyll messiahs complex his brow punished by a crown of thorns every thought and every memory ridiculed subjugation before the sign of horns every moment of life a sacred heart in sorrow piercing barbs at every beat of their bleeding hearts paraded trophy fallen from grandeur whipped and flogged this lord of the dance sullen skies filled with screaming fire blood red ocean brims and boils vandalized the house of heavens seized in mithraic constructive coils eater of worlds conqueror of gods i take my fill plunderer of stars steel jaws