Precipice

Precipice
Sacerdotal texts tell of a dark age Where despondent ancient peoples
Suffered dysgenic plague Truth which the elders could remember as lies had
become sacrosanct

Unspeakable acts and mundane desires left kin divided
Many who remained pure fled the madness while others chafed
The texts speak of one who possessed a pious vision
One of endogenous strength and wisdom

Strength to stand alone - to separate symptom from disease
To harness rage towards reprisal
Wisdom preserved in hushed recollections, recorded in outlawed tomes
Erudition came to he who would not slink before the false

Others who had scorned idolatry
Flocked to this messiah, though it was widely detracted
As his words came to be the debacle compounded
And lands won in the first New World War were abandoned

In isolation the conclave prepared while multitudes were pacified with bile
Egregious vestiges of civilization crumbled around the traitors
And the leeches to whom they had chosen to serve host
Pestilence of time immemorial

Few years passed before patrols began to appear in the Holy Lands
Transmutations of fallacious edicts
Before righteous predators the swine were as prey
And empty beliefs died with their bearers
As generations passed, so, too, did this messiah pass Yet seeds had been sown
And the "utopia" had indeed become as filth, as he had foreseen
Pilgrimage again came, though now under quaternary standards
Defenders bred invaders; multiplied tenfold

Prophecies begat destiny for the true chosen Parables instilled from infancy
Veterans of that final war still tell of a hideous enemy and their parasitic lords

Whose bodies were burned in great pyres Each one indistinguishable from the next
So it was done, so it is written and so shall it never be again