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Whitewashed Tombs Dressing Up Disfigured Skeletons

The whitewashed tombs    
Dress up the disfigured skeletons;
To appeal to even the most  
Faint of heart.  
   
Dressing up the outside with  
Makeup to coverup their    
Heinous crimes.  
All to distract from the    
Evil within those    
Whitewashed tombs.  
   
Diverting their best efforts to  
Dressing up the outside, so you    
Don't really notice the power of the  
Makeup they use; nor the    
Whitewashed tombs they retire to.    
   
Putting their best appearance forward.    
Nothing but deceitful alluring smiles  
Surround you like a hostile hug.    

Providing a false sense of security,
 so you don't notice when the mutilated    
Skeletons undress and climb into their  
Whitewashed tombs.    
   
Trying with all they have to distract you  
From the twisted illusion they all    
Follow like blind sheep.    
I'm believing that they are simply too dull, or possibly too  
afraid to form their own opinions.  
   
Playing as if they provide peace inside,
but honestly they thrive    
Off the pain and guilt from sin.  

Sorry but pain and peace don't play well together,
 and sin is part of being human.    
   
All of this to cover up a sinister fable!    
Like a cult they attempt to force you to    
Believe the deadly tell they spin.    

The reality, though, they are simply    
Pretty skeletons with disfigured skulls  
Hiding in whitewashed tombs.  
Written by Jadedembers (Starving demons)
Published | Edited 7th Jan 2020
Author's Note
My ex-husband was very into telling me that God requires a man's wife to submit to sex no matter what. I disagreed.
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