The Ferryman

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Oh---

Sever me.

Clever me..

I can See it plain.

The Lies we tell;

Passed down,

Of Hell-

But twist and maim.

The cries of Help;

Well.. 

We dare not see

Nor change ourselves.

Brainwashing thorough;

Colder and Older

Than the Pain we patch over,

For a Book so old-

With confliction manifold...

And words that comfort only to scold.

Scripted by hands

Long since dead.

....so they Rule us from the Grave,

               Instead...

Preaching Hellfire with every deed-

Don't look...

Don't see...

Don't feel...

Don't be...

Think naught

But THESE

Words we carve

On things crueler than stone.

Surrender your Will.

Give up your Soul.

Ohhhh---

Clever control.

And do not weep

As your forfeited tears creep...

You should have known we'd

Make Despair the most fertile Seed.

A form of Control

    Of the subtlest strain-

The Twisted Flame.

We hold it inside.

See it burn.

See it writhe.

For why fear Hell

  When we're already crispy inside

              From all the Lies?

The unresisted Flames rise-

The fisted flame dies.

The 'Once Gentle' Soul

Of the newly-born, shows

How Rhetoric can take hold.

Dampen the Flame

   Of Life within-

Surely this

Is the GREATER Sin?!?

The once strong Flame

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