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Welcome To Blood City

That day Concrete skies Sang siren harmony The metal spear upsurge pierced the clouds That rain with crimson dust Down poured catastrophe, Fire charred the steel and brickwork graves In their unfeasibly twisted sprawl. And those people, Their flesh Rag doll ripped In splayed defile of innocence, like nothing, Sacrificed to some black hole creed, Wasted by fanatical sons, Who care not for the sanctity, Nor precious yield of life. Once more, The vultures Of neo-corruption Ply their pig-sick violence and murderous trade, This necrotic afterbirth of Babylon’s whore, Craven abominate filth, cancer On the scarred face Of a world they never made. Welcome to Blood City Then, But beware, you jackals that slope slyly, Hyenas sniffing carrion in the dark harbours, The sea of human souls in These streets, these squares, these pavilions Will drown you. Welcome to A lesson in History, Bear witness to the handiwork of adversity, The outcome of the politics of terror, For true humanity always unites to repulse, Unifies in synchronised visions of faith and hope, Resolves…you lose.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2005




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