The Flagellant - Battered

And their feet trod through the ash

White hands blistering

There was nothing here

Only what they had delivered

No light split the horizon

Nothing beyond the veil

Only this blighted earth

(And the sound of dust over bone)

White pain

It’s over.

End it

No time to undo

We’re unmade

It’s time to let go

End me

They used to have each other

But no one remembered

Once they gave one another

Blinded by faith

The sky split open

And time reflected itself

Where does it leave us?

(Build me this god…)

(And so the earth was harvested…)