Ruin

I breathe black air
The sort that contaminates,
Chokes your prayers
In your throat.
I eat ashes,
Dust and dirt and memories.
Douse me with Holy Water,
So I can bathe
And desecrate,
Your moist decrepit faith.
Death howls my name,
From afar the echoes
Drown the laughter.
There is no light
At the end of this tunnel.
Find your dark corner,
Infested with filth and parasites.
Watch your back,
Your own shadow
Has the power to end your life.
All your armies,
Your palaces and paradise
Will return to the earth,
Forgotten.
Like dying embers in the sky.
And all your love,
Your sanity,
Will be like a mirage
In the depths of your mind.
I can taste your pain,
The fear in your veins
From the salt in your eyes.
I can smell your doom
From the rose that never bloomed;
Only the charred petals lie.
Cursed to know
Cursed to see
Through the sweet ripened fruit,
To the ugly rotten core.
The promise in beautiful lies
Lull them to sleep
Even as faceless creatures lurk
Over them as they dream.
Never to see
Never to know.
A burden of despair
For those that choose
To swallow
The ugly truths.