No Longer a Covenant

It was as if constrictive vigilance And tactical resplendent barbarism Could transform monumental avarice And endemic ruthless kindness Into something wholesome, glorious But this was clearly not to be Neither capricious nobility Nor veiled brutish fondness Or kindred perverse piety Could assuage sweet betrayal Or hide the melodious wailing Of the victims of amiable cruelty Those scenes of obscene righteousness Exaltation of attractive mischief That immersion into irreverent bliss Supplanted murderous heroism With derelict wholeness Honour no longer a covenant Ignoble modesty courted cordial vulgarity Pitting youthful decrepitude And such evil delight as then reigned Against perceived intellectual torment Erecting a pseudo-mystic reef barrier To counter intellectual penetration!