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Tangled roots in soil dead and wasted

No life in fruit once consecrated

Blight seed

Once forms of adoration

Foul scenes

As mockery is stationed

Scarred by ages, monuments decay

Empires crumble, God's eyes fade away

Tapestries of faith, woven with despair

Flames of time devour the altars of our prayer

Ritual

Pillars

Burn

Cursed forms

In errant waste

Hollow idols

Ceremonies abrogate

Prophecies

On pungent breath

Ridden scythe in grip

Invert edifying death

Dogmatic amputations

Noxious pall hangs low, asphyxiates

In ashen earth, noble auspices await

Lex talionis....