and when the seventh seal was broken,
the anti-Christ, presumed politically dead
arose from the sea of dogmata and tyranny
supported by cowards, hypocrites, and thieves
professing to be the followers of Jesus, but
spewing lies, hatred and disinformation
from the ancient pulpit of intolerance and greed

breaking promises to allies and the downtrodden,
the wicked assembly betrayed the eastern lambs
to the bloody, butcher of the sickle and axe
but, evil is never satisfied with land or wealth
power and more power for powers sake alone
so, they severed the seven heads of sanity
until the old world exploded into shards

while western believers suffered in silence
rendered mute, desolate, shattered, and starving
for refusing to play the false prophet’s game,
and take the silicon beast’s mark on their hand,
denied the right to buy or sell, but only suffer,
they could not topple the blasphemous demon who
in his final desperate act pushed the button…

but, their Lord did not return to save them
and the trumpets of Michael did not blow
and God’s children did not rise to heaven,
only the charred ashes of the innocent rose
as the promise of eternal salvation evaporated
into the poison waters and darkening skies
of nuclear winter and total extinction

Pella, Iowa '24