Voyage of the Damned
They were as Jonah was,
cast down into the belly of the whale
They were soon to experience
every unimaginable horror on this ship of hell
On the voyage of the damned,
you hear the cries of the condemned
Be prepared to die as well,
unless God chooses to intervene
A lot of souls won't make it
on the food they were given to eat
Rancid water, spoiled bread
and maggot infested meat
That rank disgusting swill,
you wouldn't even give to a dog
It had the most foul stench ever,
as if dredged from the filthiest bog
On the voyage of the damned,
you hear the cries of the condemned
Be prepared to die as well,
unless the captain wants to hear you sing
You got whipped for moaning too loud,
'cause you're hurting from being whipped before
You got beaten longer than the last time,
as someone you knew was getting beat even more
The drunken prince and the devout priest
are both chained and bound together
The greatest as well as the least
are each tossed off during stormy weather
On the voyage of the damned,
you hear the cries of the condemned
Be prepared to die as well,
unless the cook becomes your friend
Tortured wails in the night
prevent you from getting much sleep
You can't afford to get too sick
from the rough waves of the deep
Or you'll get pitched overboard
to the insatiable trailing fins
Don't be the last to follow orders,
or you'll be the next one thrown in
On the voyage of the damned,
you hear the cries of the condemned
Be prepared to die as well,
unless your body can satisfy ten men
You're surrounded by diseased walls
and an unbreakable trap door
Your clothes reek of a piss odor
from laying on the excrement covered floor
Each day you desire death
within this cruel house of motion
Each night you always pray
this death ship sinks in the ocean
On the voyage of the damned,
you hear the cries of the condemned
But if that ship of woe reaches land,
a new and different kind of hell is awaiting
Copyright © Freddie Robinson Jr. | Year Posted 2016
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