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The way of the beast

 

The dark came then went,

many many lives were spent

And many tears did dampen the blooded soil.

Shalt there be a peaceful breath

Though I know I pray for death,

This is the way of the beast.

 

Distorted lifeless faces;

Blended the blooded grounds,

Ten thousand and one twisted limbs

Reached out from their mounds.

Anguish agony terror,

Are but a few emotions felt in this place,

But to see these poor poor helpless figures

With children in their embrace.

It is truly the way of the beast.

 

To live in the belly of hell

To dwell, a working walking broken shell

To be laughed at when sentenced to die

And made to watch your mother fry

It is the way of the beast.

 

A grave as large as a morning cloud;

To make a tyrant feel as proud,

As the minds of many before they fell.

As the mind of one from the belly of hell.

 

A stench of smoke drifts higher and higher

Way above a raging fire

Ti’s human fuel that feeds this wrath

By twisted men with jest and laugh

 

As the night cloaks the hours of dread

We huddle up tight on our stoney beds

The wails and cries and moans lay still

Now the beckoning morning is over the hill

 

Shall i never see till my eyes are hollow

Why man should feed on so much sorrow

Why one nation is put above another

With blood and brother against each other

ti's the way of the beast

 

when tears stop in a blink of an eye

when echo's drift in a silenced cry

when footsteps trample your very soul

from distant horrors by men of stone

 

when all hope turns to desperation

when nothing is left but consolation

when distant memories fade then cease

this is truly the way of the beast

 

The end

                                                                          J gallagher

Posted 01/06/2008