Kneel on mangled knees at the feet of zealous sadists
Ruptured
Flesh splits open spilling the crimson waste trembling,
Still your cowering, this is self appointed penance
Beset by scourging lashes from all angles the whips shall fall
Whimpering wreck, prostrate and take these blows
Smashed down and beaten, atonement in submission
Precise and merciless, flagellation scourge this soul
Desperate to vindicate, to redeem
Every strike leaves mounting scars and bloody gashes
“Anoint me in these righteous bruises
These scars of absolution”
Each slash hardens and callouses
Every stinging wound crusts like a shell
Bit by bit, flesh turns to iron
Rigid in a permanent state of dejection
"You are deserving of every vile act of hatred"
Tormenting thoughts
Parasitically feed on remorse
Engorged on the flagellates crimson spilling's
Teeth bury deeper with each manic thrashing
"You are a worthless cretin, not a man but a beast"
Unable to break these cycles of guilt
The defeatist desperately cries
“This is all we are
And all we'll ever be
Its all you'll ever be”
It's not that things cannot change, it's just never in a significant way
This is a fatalistic prophecy
A defeatists pervasive ideology
Yearn to define yourself as something more
Than a slave to your impulses
A creature capable of reform
“This is all we are
And all we'll ever be
Its all youll ever be”
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