#i've had the words teach me cruelty popping up for weeks

[shadows-haunt-angels]

Teach me Cruelty, O Lord

That I may bolster my open’d heart

And close th’ weeping eye.

Purify me, oh Lord of Pain,

And in doing so bind me closer.

Your flensing blade sings to me, Kin Binder,

Cut free this worldly skin, and bestow upon me th’ cloak of callousness.

Rend my bones, oh King of Stitches,

and replace them with the Iron of Indifference,

that none may shake my spirit save you.

Take my ichor, and join it in the glorious Fountain, so that I might achieve Unity in Blood.

Breathe screams into my lungs, Last Breath Comforter,

So that I might sing you the song of a thousand million men

Under humanity’s conjoined flesh, writhing in similarity.

Deafen mine ears, oh Siren of the End,

That I may not hear the Empathy of Pain in all it’s horrific Glory,

Ringing in the brains of we chattel so innumerable as water in the seas.

Cut out mine tongue, Scribe of Names,

That I might choke on lies and truth in equal manner

Silence and mercy sewn into my lips, spite and malice brewing in my throat.

Take my hands, oh Crawling Spider Lord,

And replace them with your unbother’d chitin,

That I might only do your work, weave your Webs in glorious solitude.

Eat my heart, oh Death,

And with it slay the very fear of you,

Whose silence brings multitudes

And unites the masses in perpetuity.