seeds of madness sown by faith raised by time eternal growing on remorse protected by a self-sacrificing body in the same filth we are all withering slowly näive heart of eternal hope writhes in silent agony they said we kept growing as a tumour we consume our shriveled selves and the earth screams the civilisation blues What's the sense? Where's the aim? survive and breed and go on killing all that endured and kept us living Chained for ever by our karma we go on chewing Eve's apple with a smile we drink the foul words of the soul-snake Maybe that is all we deserve to become our own parasites from the front row we watch our wondrous doom