The Wisdom of the Desert
always it has been thus
after the defeat
the final defilement
the failure to deliver
the followers of the liar
the believers of the
lecherous spreader of untruth
the disciples of the purveyor of poison
turn upon their champion
like flies upon carrion
rotting in the arizona sun
loss follows loss
after the vengeance
what’s left recoils and waits
like a trampled desert snake
in the shadows of rocks
the soul departs
the destitute and abandoned
body of the beast
stares into the mirrors
of the jail of its own making
imagines another life
in silence