Cohort of the ages
Aah subordinate fiend
Whose eyes are like flames
burning in the pits of hell
Deft to the trials of normality
I watch as you ponder
wasting your lives away.
You slave after your master
Bowing to its every whim
and in return
whipped and spat upon
but still you grovel
craving blessing from a being
so far removed
you see only its shadow
reaching across the boundary of ages
to be spoken of and worshiped
like something new to the world
a world it has so long ago forsaken
and cast into the bowels of time
to decay and be forgotten
like many dreams and memoirs
of a strange reality spun of lies.
Your head hangs low with age
Your back bowed in prayer
and yet you toil
you strive to stay true to
a being who has no recollection of your many prayers
no thoughts of your wasted days years lives
and yet to teach your children to be as you
a follower of a dead sect
a servant to one
whos bones have long ago returned to earth
Nat Forbes 1-26-02
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