The Bloody Ball

A waltz to the dead
Form in the circles
The ritual is ahead

Blood
Sacrifice
Drums

Beats in the midst of silence
Fancy dresses and fancy suits
Faces of white plastic seen
The light shadowing their complexion
Emotions forever unchanging

Step right
Step back
Twirl
To the shadow


Bright is the full moon
On this bloody requiem
Naked women
Starved and beaten men
Fresh is the meat

Silence comes to play
Candles are lit
Darkness crawls from its corners

The grails are given
Saliva drips
See the veins pulse
The heart beats are fast
Fill the cups with blood

Hunger
Transformation
Congregation

Faces of formless identities melting
Hair and teeth showing
Moaning forming the chorus
Sharp eyes fixed
Victims lit in silver

Finally the feast begins
Cups are filled with blood
Limbs torn
Heads severed
Life un-tethered

The souls depart
For the next thousand years
They will come to dance and feast
To live forever in the dark
Come to fill that insatiable spark
Of their hunger that will go on forever