I'm pretty happy with how brutal it came out It's my entry for my writing forums December poetry challenge The splash of water in your face Their whispers in your ear Pointlessly plead your case 40 Hail Mary’s for your disgrace Forever in thrall to a God nowhere near Lest you fall from grace Dead eyes and a crooked smile The cores of forbidden fruit begin to pile Sadist lies seed the fertile mind Catatonic and eyes stitched blind Marching down the bloody aisle Let it run through the river Nile At my command Don the blood of lamb A plague of ten Crops crumble to sand Peace decays Within a vengeful God’s hand