Felony - Martyr

All who so thirst for power

Fail to see how swift it devours...

Oh faithless arrogance

Thou hast amended the souls

Of all they who be brave...

And so dost thou beseech all

Wearing away the spirit, the flame

Those who would rise

Hide 'neath all the lies

And they who would call

Praise their fatality...

Crawling, they, as larvae.

Insipid, arrogance,

Leaving the valiant

Perfidy, hearsay,

Assailing the ardent

Discrete revolts

Abstract word

Bravery fulminated

Stagnant larvae

Truth drawn from the waters of chance

Lust for power, pointless, ignorant

With all the grandeur of entropy

Questioning faith, place your bets

Waxen feathers, raising stakes

A lament of praise,

The tears of an angel

The illusion of glory never to exist

Imperfect perfection

Perfectly imperfect

Forfeiting desire

Perennial quest

Never to begin

 Acerbically stoic

Ineptly lucid

Fanatic felons

Heroic cowardice

Jail of flesh

Nets of woven nerves

Ditches of blood

Time's ball and chain

Those who would rise

Hide 'neath all the lies

And they who would call

Praise their fatality...

Crawling, they, as larvae...