Homeland Misery Processional

flagrant failures

raised as idols
daylight seraphs

shining b******s

 

 

moonlit vandals

slaughter hope fiends

in the shadows

sexy shadows

 

 

where urchins shed their masks.

 

 

momma’s bundle

carted away

camo painted

doped with honor

 

 

sent to battle

Legion’s horde

in the shadows

sexy shadows

 

 

where God’s children shed their blood.

 

 

rapacious grace

duty coated

crowded throbbing
then still silence

 

 

precious buried

courage squandered

in the shadows

sexy shadows

 

 

where the tombstones mourn their bones
but live mourners all go home

to tend new holes

of their own