And So, Betrayed

Speak the words “never again”

Deny you ever suffered

Salt the wound that will not heal

What of yourself would you give

To take the pain away?

A pound for flesh for an ounce of sin?

Slit the vein, swallow the poison

The worm devours from within

The sands of time

Only count the days we suffer

Etching compassion’s elegy

A hatred so refined

Birth darker days and stir from slumber

The will to end humanity

And so, betrayed by man

And so, betrays again

What was there left of us at last

To fill our shallow grave

But blackened hearts no one will mourn?

Slip the spade, cover the carcass

Forever dark after the dawn

A hatred so refined

Birth darker days and stir from slumber

The will to end humanity

And so, betrayed by man

And so, betrays again

And so, betrayed by man

And so, betrayed by man

Blood for the years I suffered

Tears for the wound that would not heal

Sweat from the fear that drags me under

Dread for pain I no longer feel

And so, betrayed by man