Like clotted blood along veins of clay
My nights are blackened shards in my mind
Where sleep has become impossible to find
I have been hollowed out/left a shell
Where no crustacean would dare to dwell
I am the poisoned sky/the barren sea
This cancerous skin/this leprosy
I am the ruler who has abandoned his land
Let verdant fields turn to ash and sand
I am the rotten church/the corrupt government
The deserting army/the broken covenant
I have stabbed my soul with a rusty blade
And watched it bleed a hideous stain
So abandon all hope you who knew this man
He murders himself simply because he can
© shaun patrick green 2011
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