Prayer

Can I trouble your time, your soul?
Tax your life a little?
Pick your brains and at what remains
Of your heart
Run over the lines once more
With age premature
And open your eyes - ask to see
Beyond one dimension, one life in one sight
Look deeper than three, and far beyond fear
In the eyes of those long departed
Through doors rife with anguish
Bitter words pass over banquets
Pretence of normality: reality shifts
And most of all, search with whatever you hold
For an opening back into life
What twisted existence existed - amidst resistance
Lies of your mind to the world
Rendered blind
Witness menace that never could ever be shared
The debasing of nature, denatures yet more
In dreams
Seething with past deeds
So stark and yet unspeakable:
In malice we demand you devote us your life
You may not deem worthy our cause.
Give us this day your grateful dead;
Slaughter who stirs – trespassers or no
And never expect forgiveness.
Thy kingdom is decay
No glory in power
From ever to never
Die men…
And by the love of any
Who may still retain a heart
By some unnatural grace
And the fellowship of men, torn from body
Then soul
Please forsake us now, forget, fade away
And we pray once more
That we may never see
Another war,
Another day.