The Temptation of St. Anthony

Night comes to the city

My faith falls apart

The lights go down

We lie down in the dark

Hell is all around us

Below us only love

The crucified

With lust in their eyes

We heed no word

A sickness in our hearts

I am the dark

You are the stars

Everything has gone wrong

But I know it is just

To seek an end

Man to seduce you, a woman to reduce you

Buildings crumble, calm these hands are

Trembling masses of flesh and pulp

Chains that bind them, who’s behind them?

Leaving roads and bridges

Hearts and sentence me

To reach an end

Vile and obscene

I have made choices

To be what I’ll become

To whom I pray

Thy worst be done

This flesh still breathing, animal seething

Cold, dry breath awaiting meeting

Beasts and breasts and swollen heads play chess

Pornography in everything

It is just because God is just an

End to all things dead and living

No temptation, no more suffering

All these signals, no decisions yet

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