Children of Babylon

Children of Babylon There was Psalm rose petals in the wake of March the laughter of hells the tears of lost Edens the looming tyranny of kings the voices falling as angels from the sights of God And what reigned in the stead of David and Solomon were the children of Babylon the beasts risen from the Coliseum’s womb the savages who called themselves lords and the whores who touted their freedom before the world as they bent knee opened mouth and pacified themselves on the "phallacious" seed of the king’s rising scepter