Preservation

By: Danny Dodger

A bronzed hand covers my heart

Acts of iniquity embrace me

My mortal corpse longs for flavor

A taste of blissful agony

This hallow carcass of flesh morns

As my last thread of innocence is severed

The thought of living a felicitous life

Was torn away the moment divinity touched me

This body use is not for religious conviction

A masquerade of purity on fraudulent faces

Truth veiled by devious mysteries

Locked away in a room of tainted secrets

For every ghastly lock there is a glorious key

Give a free rein to pandemonium’s gift

Let reality pour down on this cadaver

Cleanse the holy waste away

The spark the sets the flame

A single voice of pariah

My life’s purpose

Preserved