Sordid Treachery

Conceived in sin, abandoned at birth
Twin daughters for a righteous priest
One seeks to forgive the other condemns
Her father she deems a man of sin

Affirming his love, to gain her forgiveness
She distrusts his every word
Sanctimonious ways, strengthens her spite
She believes she must sustain punishment
After an evening affair she seizes his mistress
Cuts her from ear to ear
Phrasing verses, of a furious god
As she curses her father's name

A blade in hand, she thrusts at the priest
He intercepts and impales her chest

As he dies she speaks
In the voice of her sister
The priest he lends one ear
But is shocked at what he hears

His daughter revealed within her last breath
Her sister had died at birth
Deceiving her father to make him believe
His daughters were both alive
She was the one loved and condemned him
In hope to change his ways
But now a victim of his sin
This sordid treachery