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Majestic as a dove adorned

Bathed in unearthly light

He captivates the self-absorbed

With rapturous delight

Reassuring peace in Eden

Poised upon the spire

To thrust upon his prideful clones

In danger of the fire

Seductive in his flattery

The humanistic lure

Exaltation of the nature

Diagnosed impure

Stoking fires of conceit

The spirit of this age

Idolized for their success

The seer and the sage

Claiming to be of The Christ

They are the serpent's clones

Feeding on the souls of men

Exalted on their thrones

They elevate the place of man

And feed their self-esteem

Polishing the golden calf

Majestically it gleams

A cross adorned with glitter

A sideshow to be scorned

Appealing to the wounded

And pursuing the forlorn

The stroking of the ego

Deception is the fodder

Fattening the souls of men

Enticed into his slaughter

Blurring the chasm

Between human and divine

With self adorning altars

Where they sacrifice the swine

The shepherds are complicit

In this feeding of the beast

Filling up the chalice

For the wolves who host the feast

Self image defined

By the dross exposed through fire

Having the form

But resisting His power

Turn away

Humility is ravaged

With prosperity and ease

The idols of this fallen world

To which we now appease

Sacrificing sons and daughters

To this wretched fire

Self-deceived we have become

Adorned with the attire

Of deception

Ichabod