Submerged Unto Phlegethon - Condemned

Walk forth into the rivers of red

Through blood that boils the soul

He who hath sinned shall lay in the bed

Of this scorching sanguineous stream

Set into a blaze of burning misery

Submerged in the searing blood they cause to flow

For they themselves were once enforcers of human cruelty

The sacrifice of mortal life remains unforgiven enkindled fingers,

frail and blackened

Reach forth beseechingly

Black plumes rise, smoke envelopes for the merciless wraith to endure

Screams erupt like choirs in an off key hymn

A deafening cacophony of sonorous din

Perceived in the distance, carried in the wind

Frenzied, embittered hands smother these

Desperately grasping the threshold to the shores

Hysteria takes hold

Nameless crowds become enmeshed

Wallowing in the crimson swamp

The waters pulsate violently

Churning and frothing fiery liquid

Savage beasts await pesertion

Circling along the banks

Ferociously piercing all who should seek

Release from their perennial agony

Once more, plunged beneath the boiling surface

Into the chaos below

Burn, fallen images of tyranny, scourges of god

Kings of bloodshed and despoilment