By: Bryan Ricardo Marini Quintana
Drums Drums Drums
Battering on the beat
Boots Boots Boots
Rolling on the route
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Bats Bats Bats
Hammering down the hall
Skulls Skulls Skulls
Parading down the pitfall
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Numb Numb Numb
Their minds have gone
Fixed Fixed Fixed
Their bodies have gone
Cold Cold Cold
Their souls have gone
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A Boom Boom Boom
Echoed in the Heavens
A Clap Clap Clap
Quivered in the Earth
A Thump Thump Thump
Trembled in the Abyss
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As the masses gathered to defy the Almighty Father
Clamoring in cries at their new master
With a self-proclaimed idol swaying them with fear and desire
Challenging the fallen angel’s proud power
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Atop the Garden of Eden
Met a serpent and a dove
By the Sapling of Knowledge
Rested Jehovah, awaiting to cast a stone
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As Lucifer slithered upon the highest of boughs
He took a seat on the left side of The Lord
Consulting for the last time, as Satan asked God:
“What are thou waiting for?” before the breaking of the world
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Heartbroken, Jehovah answered: “Once, I beheld thee to be mine wickedest creation.
Alas, mankind has surpassed thy dreadful deeds.”
Thence Lucifer scoffed at this audacious proclamation
As Satan was offended that God’s children could contend with his foul feats
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He went on to boastfully recount his every endeavor:
“I swayed Adam and Eve to take a bite from the fruit in thy tree.
I caused suffering to mankind by banishing them from the Garden of Eden.
I damned thy children with consciousness and nakedness to wither in disgrace.”
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“I rebelled against thee for mine vain aspirations,
to oppose thine omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent order.
I wished to challenge thine indisputable reign over us,
to contest thy wisdom and knowledge as the sole creator.”
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“For I, Father, coveted nothing else but to see thy seed crumble.
Mine Sin was rebelling against thy plans out of pride.
For I Jehovah, desired not to be lord of anyone.
Mine Sin was craving to see thy designs become undone.”
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“Through Pride, Greed, Lust, and Envy,
I concocted perverted temptations to mislead thy children.
Through Wrath, Sloth, and Gluttony,
I boiled wicked enticements to dissuade mankind from finding purpose.”
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Grief-stricken, Jehovah replied: “Thine heart darkened in this garden
when thou first slithered to tempt mine children.
Now upon the Sapling of Knowledge, thou avowed to sinning
by plaguing mankind with thy deceitful tongue that caused ceaseless suffering.”
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“Thou enticed them to Sin with a false promise,
as Adam and Eve ate from mine Sacred Tree.
Thou influenced them, but there was a choice,
and they chose to disobey mine command.”
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“For thou, mine friend, are an instrument bound
to test the will of mankind.
For thou, mine friend, are destined for treachery
to sway them with vices that forsake responsibility.”
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“Thou must realize, mine Son, that their suffering has been self-imposed.
For I gave them life and purpose through me, but they disregarded mine command.
Even though I gifted them free will, Adam and Eve blamed thee when they erred.
Hence, I banished them from Paradise for heeding thy poisoned tongue.”
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“Through Humility, Gratitude, Chastity, and Temperance
I am the way to cleanse thy soul from impure thoughts.
Through Patience, Charity, and Diligence
I am the way to mend thine heart from malignant actions.”
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Thus, Jehovah raised his voice and proclaimed: “Behold mine labor Lucifer and despair!
For I’m incapable of recognizing mine own seed that brings forth this decay!
Their minds, bodies, and souls have been molded by a tyrant to be boundless and bare!
He twisted mine children who march blindly in columns and stretch far away!”
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From the Garden of Eden, both gazed in horror upon the rally that humanity had ordained
Where the crowds worshiped neither Satan nor God but instead idolized a totalitarian state
At the helm, an ideologue didn’t envision chaotically burning the world
Devising stratagems for a new order to remake Earth with Heaven and Hell undone
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Amidst the feast of crows festering for guidance
There ruled a demagogue on the podium, claiming his throne
Operating his marionettes through their fears and desires
By commanding them to think and act alike with the use of his threads
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Although he swayed fanatics to keep him company
The tyrant stood alone, bereft of identity
With neither a Family to love
Nor a God to revere
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With his scepter, the ideologue mustered legions
Incapable of preserving traditions to build a nation
Quelling the hearts of mothers and the wisdom of fathers
To rob the blissfulness of their children
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Over in that Colosseum reigned a new demagogue
Who followed in the footsteps of Cleon and Alcibiades
By proclaiming himself Caesar of the People
To rule as Emperor of the rabble-rousers
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Emulating Caligula, Nero, and Commodus
The tyrant employed their flamboyant theatrics
Flaunting the herd with seditious speeches
To erect an all-swallowing state disdainful of morals and values
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Echoing Napoleon, Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler
A new ideologue roused his disciples with heated passions
Subduing them under maniacal delusions of grandeur
That have decimated bygone civilizations
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Atop the Garden of Eden met a serpent and a dove
After Satan confessed, God beheld the demagogue
While Lucifer sneaked in fear that he would be deposed
Jehovah contemplated in sorrow if he should smite the stone
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Drums Drums Drums
Battered on the beat
Boots Boots Boots
Rolled on the route
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Bats Bats Bats
Hammered down the hall
Skulls Skulls Skulls
Paraded down the pitfall
The Western Voyager 