Dante in Dreams

Dante in Dreams (3/27/07)

False Prophets search the rubble
for seven signs of doom and salvation
but overlook the blood pouring
from her feminine hands
Because the weaker sex, the inferior race
has no place in God's Revelation
She is unworthy of her own free will
let alone able to carry the burden of stigmata
So we pray to our token deities that they will
stop fucking long enough to see
that the world has gone to hell while
we praised them for the tragedies
that we mistook for miracles
And we pray for all the desires
of our hearts and bodies
but neglect to ask for the wisdom
to know when love turns to emotional cannibalism
and now the ghosts hovering over my bed
give me a false sense of security and
drunken angels lead me astray so far
that I can no longer determine who
speaks my prayers and who hears them
But now it's too cold to feel
the fire burning beneath us and
everything we've prayed for has
damned us to this fate so
we give in and let
genius give way to insanity